The Big Swallow
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title:
The Big Swallow
text:
The Big Swallow is a 1901 British silent comic trick film, directed by James Williamson, featuring a man, irritated by the presence of a photographer, who solves his dilemma by swallowing him and his camera whole. The three-shot trick film is, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "one of the most important early British films in that it was one of the first to deliberately exploit the contrast between the eye of the camera and of the audience watching the final film". The "tricks" us
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description:
1901 British film by James Williamson
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Swallow
date created:
2011-04-28T12:15:22Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T11:07:10Z
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