Best Film of 1877

1. The Magic Rosette [La rosace magique]
Director: Émile Reynaud
France (formerly French Republic) | Western Europe | Europe
1877 | 1870s | 19th Century

In its day, the moving images in Émile Reynaud's "The Magic Rosette" (1877) must have felt more exciting than some of the current developments in AI technology. Ground-breaking in form and content, this is one of the few pre-cinema works of art that possess true magic within them.

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