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Time Machine: Beauty and the Interval Between by Francis Dougherty, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation Division

Motion pictures are really a form of compressing time. A shutter opens and closes capturing still images. We are complicit in this magical deceit extrapolating what happened in the interval between. This brief hand colored black and white Edison film in which Annabelle Whitford Moore dances a la trilby or barefoot is my favorite moving image in the library's collection; it is both mechanical and handmade. In this …

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 9:19am on July 9, 2013

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