{"id":19,"date":"2011-07-04T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=19"},"modified":"2026-10-07T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:30:11","slug":"cutting-edge-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Edge Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/12_05\/a_tough_dance.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" ><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/a_tough_dance.jpg' alt='Lunch'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/12_05\/a_tough_dance.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" ><em>A Tough Dance<\/em> (1902, 7.1MB, 47 sec.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/12_05\/bicycle_trick_riding.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" ><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/bicycle_trick_riding.jpg' alt='Lunch'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/12_05\/bicycle_trick_riding.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" ><em>Bicycle Trick Riding<\/em> (1899, 5.5MB, 37 sec.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/12_05\/three_acrobats.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" ><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/three_acrobats.jpg' alt='Lunch'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/12_05\/three_acrobats.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" ><em>Three Acrobats<\/em> (1899, 5.4MB, 36 sec.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three exhilarating chunks of early movie making from the<br \/>\nLibrary of Congress online collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/vshtml\/vsfilm.html\" target=\"_blank\">variety stage motion pictures<\/a>.<br \/>\nI particularly love the deeply strange A &#8216;Tough&#8217; Dance.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s also a great <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/oahtml\/oahome.html\" target=\"_blank\">early animation<\/a> collection on the LOC site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tough Dance (1902, 7.1MB, 47 sec.) Bicycle Trick Riding (1899, 5.5MB, 37 sec.) Three Acrobats (1899, 5.4MB, 36 sec.) Three exhilarating chunks of early movie making from the Library of Congress online collection of variety stage motion pictures. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=19\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16,17,40,24,26,13,9,37,45,126,47,29,43,18,50,54,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-cinema","category-community","category-dance","category-documentary","category-documentary-arts","category-ephemera","category-film","category-historical","category-humor","category-memory","category-observational","category-performance","category-portraiture","category-satire","category-serial","category-silent","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11985,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/11985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}