Movies
by Francois Flameng
Phone-Cinema-Theatre/Exposition de 1900
Curvaceous woman leans against a camera while holding a cane.This installation at the 1900 Paris World's Fai was truly an embarrassment of diversionary riches, with the wide range of turn-of-the-century entertainment luminaries recorded in early celluloid - most likely little more than a rapid-fire slide presentation - creating quite the little extravaganza.