Tetrady not as good as all the hype

Majorthebys Charming and brutal

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Michael_Elliott Sioux Ghost Dance (1894) If you go through the early part of cinema, starting in 1888, you can tell that things were progressively getting much better to the point where motion pictures were starting to take form. Most of these early pictures that were put on display for crowds were very simple and showed certain things that they might have paid to see on a stage.This one here features a group of Indians doing the title dance. This lasts just under thirty seconds so there's obviously not a plot to follow or anything too difficult. I found this footage to be highlight entertaining for a number of reasons. For starters, this appears to be a real tribe and not just actors, which is a major plus. The dance certainly isn't anything you'll be trying to do yourself but it's fun. The historic importance of these early pictures

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) I'd say the title is exactly what you see in this 20-second-long short movie, but I wasn't really sure where the "ghost" reference was. Maybe the way they were moving? It was actually rather boring and not too artistic and certainly didn't seem too supernatural or spooky to me to be honest and if you asked them, they might even agree. It's still an okay film for the beautiful dresses and especially hair-dresses these Indians were wearing. As a whole, though, I'd really only recommend it to silent film enthusiasts. Everybody else can do very well without this experience. The physical quality of the film is not great either, even for 1894. Dickson and Heise have delivered some more impressive works even in the same year.

cricket crockett . . . or at Thomas Alva Edison's East Orange, NJ, Black Mariah Tinseltown forerunner. Why not brainwash the American public via ZERO DARK THIRTY that the well-documented ruthless indiscriminate non-stop torture of hundreds of random minority people (like the guy murdered in the Oscar-honored TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE) turned up one guilty guy who blabbed something which allowed SEAL Team 6 to interrupt Usama Bin Laden's late-night porn choking session, shoot him in the face, and ditch him in the Pacific (though all the evidence proves this just did NOT happen, and all the American tax dollars spent to torture family men taxi drivers to death was just more government waste)? Edison waited about as long after the assassination of Sitting Bull and the machine-gunning of a couple hundred women and children of his extended family as the ZERO people waited after the SEAL team raid to come out with this anti-Lakota propaganda. First, he insulted them by cramming the Black Mariah film studio beyond its capacity, leaving the braves with not enough room to turn around, let alone ghost dance. What follows is a necessarily fake "performance," shot haphazardly, met to assure the Eastern public, "Hey, buy some train tickets and buy some camping gear: if this is all those Injuns can muster up, itz safe to go back West, young man, woman & child!"

Mikko_Elo_ this short, 22-second film is another one of edison's black maria studios' motion picture camera experiments, this time heise and dickson immortalize fully war-painted American natives performing the mystical ghost dance.the film itself is quite dark, you can barely see what's going on. ironically the ghost dance, as far as i understand, was a native American ritual/religion to separate the natives from the white man, his alcohol, weapons and _technology_. 'sioux ghost dance' was shot five years after, according to the story, wovoka's peyote induced vision where he saw the future evils of white man and the second coming of Christ, who (surprise surprise), came in wovoka's shape. as the word spread, the lakota came to meet him and learn the ghost dance. the most fanatic followers of the cult, big foot and his band, mostly women and children, got slaughtered by whites at wounded creek in 1890, only two weeks after the arrests where the lakota chief sitting bull was shot in the head by the lakota police during a gunfight between the police and the ghost dancers, an event precipitating the wounded creek massacre.