A sheer delight for all lovers of early cinema, and what a pleasure to watch it in the decadent Hyde Park Picture House! This remarkable film, composed entirely of archive footage from the first four and a half decades of cinema, opens up Pandora’s glowing box to reveal the spirit of fairground attractions, fireworks, figures, forests, dunes and Eros. These stunning and telling archive images are beckoned to life once more to (critically) comment on cinema’s own mythology that all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun (Godard).
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