1907 E5 - Agata Frymus

Agata Frymus, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University Malaysia, selects mostly comic films to represent 1907. But by rounding out her selections with an (only maybe regrettably?) lost historical drama and the first Japanese selection of the whole show, she illustrates the multiplicity of film form at the time.

Agata is the author of Damsels and Divas: European Stardom in Silent Hollywood. She was also a principal investigator on Black Cinema-Going in New York during the Interwar Period (2018-2020) and serves as a submissions editor for Early Popular Visual Culture.

Films and resources mentioned:

• The Dancing Pig (1907) - unknown
• Race for the Sausage (1907) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• Laughing Gas (1907) - Edwin S. Porter
• Pocahontas: A Child of the Forest (1907) - Edwin S. Porter
• Katsudō Shashin (1907) - unknown
• Laughing Gas (1907) - J. Stuart Blackton
• The Great Train Robbery (1903) - Edwin S. Porter
• Mary Jane’s Mishap (1903) - George Albert Smith
• Pocahontas (1995) - Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg
• The New World (2005) - Terrence Malick
• Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) - J. Stuart Blackton
• Fantasmagorie (1908) - Émile Cohl
• Something Good/Negro Kiss (1898) - William Selig
• The Dull Sword (1917) - Jun'ichi Kōuchi
• Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema - Maggie Hennefeld