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Burglars at Work (S)

5.8

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Original title

Dévaliseurs nocturnesaka

AKA

Burglary at Night

Year

1904

Running time

7 min.

Country

France

Director

Gaston Velle

Producer

Pathé Frères

Genre

Drama | Cop Movies. Heist Film. Origins of Film. Silent Film. Short Film

Synopsis

Gaston Velle and Segundo de Chomon were the two directors at Pathe charged with directing movies in the style of Georges Melies and, using the larger budgets and staffs available to them, eventually drove him out of business.

Neither, however, limited themselves to those movies and in this crime drama from 1904 we have an enormously sophisticated story film in sixteen scenes, using a cyclorama and a film grammar that had clearly evolved into modern film grammar with consecutive action clearly delineated -- compare this to the work that Edwin Porter was doing in the US at the time, works like LIFE OF AN American FIREMAN.

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Burglars at Work (S)

1904

Gaston Velle

5.8

(103)