Three American Beauties (USA 1906, Edwin S. Porter).
Credit: Museum of Modern Art.
HDR photographs of the stencil colored nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
This short film, which was usually tinted, was meant to be shown at the conclusion of an evenings program. So many prints were made of the popular film that its negative wore out, forcing Porter to reshoot Three American Beauties in September 1907.
(Leyda, Jay; Musser, Charles; American Federation of Arts (1986): Before Hollywood. Turn-of-the-century Film from American Archives. American Federation of Arts, on p. 133.
See Dan Streible (2017): More BEAUTIES of early cinema; or, Show me a rose and New Subjects in Sprocket Films and Mutoscopes on the history and genealogy of the film.
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Three American Beauties (USA 1906, Edwin S. Porter). Credit: Museum of Modern Art, Department of Film. HDR photographs of the stencil colored nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Three American Beauties (USA 1906, Edwin S. Porter). Credit: Museum of Modern Art, Department of Film. HDR photographs of the stencil colored nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Three American Beauties (USA 1906, Edwin S. Porter). Credit: Museum of Modern Art, Department of Film. HDR photographs of the stencil colored nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Three American Beauties (USA 1906, Edwin S. Porter). Credit: Museum of Modern Art, Department of Film. HDR photographs of the stencil colored nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Left, screen capture of the film streaming from the National Film Preservation Foundation; right, YouTube stream derived from Kino-MoMA DVD (2005), by Dan Streible