Hottoceame The Age of Commercialism

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Catherina If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

vukelic-stjepan I thought that this movie is from 1893. Please check once more time is 1894 correct year.This movie is fun movie which shows how the barber do his job. I have never been in barber shop, but it sounds interesting to me, and I am curious is it like a gossip shop for men, like hair salon for woman.On YT you have version with music in background, although this is not original version (original version) has no any sounds, I suggest you to watch this sounded version because it is somehow more cheerful.Did you notice that same scenes played two times? I am in group of people which doesn't notice this. I had to watch again to notice this.

kobe1413 Edison innovators W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise made this short showing a slice of life from end of the nineteenth century. A man is getting a shave at a barbershop, while two other men discuss something in the foreground.This was the best Edison film up to that point, as it feels almost like a still-life coming alive. Viewers come that time must have felt like they were watching a scene familiar to them come alive. One thing I am curious about is whether the men acting out the short scene are just Edison men fooling around, or whether they are hired actors performing a scene laid out for them.I give it a 2 out of 10.

cricket crockett . . . the dangers of second-hand smoke, as the American tobacco industry is one of the first groups to engage in product placement (note the guy with a pipe clenched between his teeth seated stage left of the barber), beaten out only by the liquor guild, which got a bottle of booze horned in to an otherwise innocent BLACKSMITH SCENE filmed slightly earlier in 1893 by the Edison Manufacturing Company. An advertising sign prominently displayed in THE BARBER SHOP 22.4-second short reads "The Latest Wonder: Shave & Hair Cut for a nickel," which, oddly enough, was about the exact same cost of watching SOMEONE ELSE get a shave and hair cut at the kinetograph parlor, which would soon morph into the more aptly named (and easier to pronounce) "nickelodeon." Though this short is set and filmed in the North, it is interesting to note that the barbershop shown is just as segregated (i.e., all-white, in this case) as any in the Jim Crow South would have been in the 1890s.

someguy889 The Barbershop is another short that I saw on the Landmarks of Early Film DVD. A guy walks up to a barbershop, a man is getting shaved, and another man is there reading the newspaper. The newspaper reading man says something to the waiting man and they both start laughing. Then the shave is done. It lasts about 20 seconds. Then the whole scene is repeated again! The exact same scene. It took me a few seconds to realize that I was watching the same thing twice. Although this short doesn't have the amazing insight and stuff of the Lumiere shorts, and seems much more planned and acted, and the insight into the life in only the most narrow of forms, I thought it was a delightful little short, pointing out the hilarious repititions of every day life. My grade: 7/10