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Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. full summary | add synopsis
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Historically Important, & Still Looks Very Good more (11 total)

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Charles Kayser ... (uncredited)
John Ott ... (uncredited)
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Also Known As:
Blacksmith Scene #1 (USA)
Blacksmith Shop (UK) (informal alternative title)
Blacksmithing (USA) (informal alternative title)
Blacksmithing Scene (USA)
The Blacksmith's Forge (UK) (informal alternative title)
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One of the 50 films in the 4-disk boxed DVD set called "Treasures from American Film Archives (2000)", compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from 18 American film archives. This film was preserved by the Museum of Modern Art. more
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Featured in Edison: The Invention of the Movies (2005) (V) more

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7 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
Historically Important, & Still Looks Very Good, 21 July 2005
Author: Snow Leopard from Ohio

The footage in this very early movie still looks very good, and it still works as a vignette (albeit a staged one) of life in a bygone era. In itself, it's a simple scene, but it's far from a lifeless one, and the composition works as well.

The scene, which features the leisurely-paced efforts of the blacksmiths as they do their work while occasionally refreshing themselves, is not without a little irony. Even in its day, although the blacksmith shop itself was a familiar sight, the laid-back feel of the scene was deliberately imagined as a throwback to an earlier day, rather than as a picture of the (then) present of the 1890s. (The notes in the new Kino collection of Edison films confirm this.) By contrast, many of the other earliest movies were made with a deliberate emphasis on things of the present.

The images still look quite clear in comparison with some of the other experiments in the earlier 1890s, so it must have looked quite good in its time. Then, it was an intriguing taste of things soon to come. Now, it is a chance to revisit the past.

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