On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Krin Gabbard wrote:
> May I take the liberty of expanding this discussion just a bit and ask if
> anyone can come up with the EARLIEST examples of slow motion in narrative
> cinema?  In _A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema_, Robert Ray traces it
> back to _Zero For Conduct_ (1933), but I think we might also give Bunuel
 credit
> for a bit of slo mo in _Un Chien andalou_.  Anything else?
 
Don't forget the camel-drawn hearse that goes out of control and the
wonderful slo-mo chase that ensues in Rene Clair's _Entr'acte_ (1924).
 
--Marty Norden
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