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The Age of Invention

Directed by Albert Kish
1983    10m
6.4
This short film serves as a poem-on-film about the coming of the machine age on the eve of World War I. Images and sounds combine to recreate a bygone era of scratchy phonograph records, faded photographs, hand-cranked movie cameras, staccato Morse telegraph messages, and rhythmic steam pumps. Machines of every description were shaping peoples' lives and changing them more rapidly than at any other time in history.
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Cast of The Age of Invention
  • Emperor Franz JosefSelf
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II of GermanySelf
  • Czar Nicholas II of RussiaSelf

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