1914 E7 - Wartime Modernity

While the 1914 season introduction promised the omnipresence of “The Great War,” World War I, if still at least mentioned in every episode, didn’t dominate the conversations. Even still, its representation of sudden disruption, evolution, and modernity is still thematically connected to the aesthetic and industrial developments in film of the year.

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Mentioned media:

Cabiria (1914) - Giovanni PastroneTillie’s Punctured Romance (1914) - Mack SennettFantômas (1914) - Louis FeuilladeDaisy Doodad’s Dial (1914) - Florence TurnerGertie the Dinosaur (1914) - Winsor McCayKid Auto Races at Venice (1914) - Henry LehrmanCaught in the Rain (1914) - Charlie ChaplinMaking a Living (1914) - Henry LehrmanThe Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) - J. Farrell MacDonald