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Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon, Edison, 1906, from Winsor McCay's comic strip. Jack Brawn eats Welsh rarebit, staggers home, and dreams of little demons, a bucking bed, and a flight over the city. About seven minutes. Edison advertised photographic stunts never attempted before; the BFI notes it was made in nine days for $350, with double exposure, miniatures, and stop-motion. Selected for the National Film Registry in 2015.
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The job: show a dream. Porter puts the bed in the air over the city with double exposure and miniatures, nine days and $350. Subjective experience on screen before anyone had a word for it.
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