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A Visit to the Seaside

1908
film

The first successful motion picture in the Kinemacolor system, this eight minute short from George Albert Smith showed people in Brighton, England doing every..

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

Kinemacolor

Similarity: 82%

Sunday by the sea

United Kingdom, 1953
Similarity: 75%

Flash trip to the beach

Australia, 1952
Similarity: 72%

Tim to the seashore

New Zealand, 1976
Similarity: 71%

Kinemacolor advertisement

United Kingdom, c. 1911
Similarity: 70%

The Gulf Between

1917
Similarity: 70%

The First moving picture show

United States
Similarity: 69%

Let's go to the movies

United States, 1948
Similarity: 69%

Notes on the passage of time

Australia, 1979
Similarity: 69%

Monkeyshines, No. 1

United States of America, 1890
Similarity: 69%

The First motion picture show

United States, 1976
Similarity: 69%

The Beginnings of the cinema

United Kingdom, 1903
Similarity: 69%

Sundaze

Australia, 1970
Similarity: 68%

O dreamland

United Kingdom, 1953
Similarity: 68%

Mary

Australia, 2004
Similarity: 68%

Captured in time: favourites of the fifties from the Cinesound / Movietone newsreels.

Australia, 1993
Similarity: 68%

Art and perception: learning to see

United States, 1970
Similarity: 68%

Becky Sharp

United States of America, 1935
Similarity: 68%
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