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The Weavers (1905 film)
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Wikipedia article
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'The Weavers'[https://books.google.com/books?id=CvP80GpqP2MC&pg=PA71&dq=manaki+brothers++1905+++The+Weavers&hl=bg&sa=X&ei=xFC9Uc2MOYSMswaV4oAg&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=manaki%20brothers%20%201905%20%20%20The%20Weavers&f=false Cinema and Classical Texts: Apollo's New Light, Martin M. Winkler, Cambridge University Press, 2009], , p. 71. or 'Grandmother Despina' is a short silent, black and white documentary film made in 1905 by the Balkan film pioneers the Manaki brothers in the small Aromanian village of Avdella, in the Ottoman vilayet of Monastir. It is about 60 seconds long and depicts the Manakis' aunts and 114-year-old grandmother Despina spinning and weaving.Zacharia, p. 323[https://books.google.com/books?id=M0NjLLVK18cC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=manaki+1905+Weavers+the+first+motion+picture+in+the+Balkans)&source=bl&ots=gxbSGxy9UK&sig=VoF1uZTm0gPXeSemtwaZPqMoJsA&hl=bg#v=onepage&q=manaki%201905%20the%20first%20motion%20picture%20in%20the%20Balkans)&f=false Balkan border crossings: First annual of the Konitsa Summer School, Vasils G. Nitsiakos, LIT Verlag Mnster, 2008], , pp. 4142.[https://books.google.com/books?id=H1fGJRxUG6wC&pg=PA323&dq=manakia+1905&hl=bg&sa=X&ei=Cgm_UYqqHs7-PNnjgMAM&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=manakia%201905&f=false Hellenisms: culture, identity, and ethnicity from antiquity to modernity, Katerina Zacharia, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008], , p. 323. It was originally called "Our 114-year-old grandmother at work weaving", but has come to be known as 'The Weavers'.[https://books.google.com/books?id=N4rr7AKg3mcC&pg=PA22&dq=manakis+1905&hl=bg&sa=X&ei=NQu_UavTDILfOsaEgKAF&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=manakis%201905&f=false Filmland Griechenland Terra incognita: griechische, Elene Psoma, Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, 2008], , S. 23. (Ger.)
It is believed to be the first film shot anywhere in the Ottoman Balkans.[https://archive.today/20130221020431/http://star.vecer.com.mk/tekst.asp?tid=15591 Vecer Online One century of the Macedonian seventh art.] (Mk.)
The film was shot with 35 mm film with an Urban Bioscope movie camera (serial number 300) imported from London.
Appropriation
An extract from the film appears at the beginning of Theo Angelopoulos's 1995 film 'Ulysses' Gaze'.
References
Bibliography
* 'Greece in modern times: an annotated bibliography of works published in English in twenty-two academic disciplines during the twentieth century', '1':109
* Katerina Zacharia, "'Reel' Hellenisms: Perceptions of Greece in Greek Cinema" in Katerina Zacharia, 'Hellenisms', p. 323
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