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Voidsville Follies

Works from James Williamson (4)

Attack on a China Mission

James Williamson (director)
Williamson (production)

Language: Silent, released in Nov 1900
Minutes: 1

A short reenactment of a Boxer attack. Full description from BFI at http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/520615/index.html

Featured elements:

: action; anti-colonialism; armed conflict; China; extended incident; historical drama; home invasion; rescue; yellow peril

Stop Thief!

James Williamson (director)
Williamson (production)

Language: Silent, released in Oct 1901
Minutes: 2

Thief steals, boy and dogs chase. All end up in a barrel. Ends abruptly, as if ending was lost. One of the earliest known surviving chase films, it's a good film to show critics that claim that movies have degenerated into gratuitous violence: this shows violence was there from the beginning. Strips the dude's clothes off, and then goes down to the mud to wrestle with him - kinda kinky...