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Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice

Gorgeous tour of late 19th century Venice

Non-Fiction 1898 1 mins Silent

Overview

This remarkable film takes us around Venice's teeming waterfront market - shot, naturally enough, from the water (a gondola?). It's a spectular piece of film tourism, all the better for being shot on WKL Dickson's own unique 68mm stock, which gives the images an astonishing sharpness.

This was one of a number of films taken during William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson's 1898 tour of Italy. On the same tour, Dickson secured the coup of capturing the first moving images of the Pope (then Leo XIII).

Genres

Non-Fiction and Travelogue

Country

United Kingdom

Language

No Dialogue with English subtitles

Subjects

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