The Age of Invention

Overview

This short film serves as a poem-on-film about the coming of the machine age on the eve of World War I. Images and sounds combine to recreate a bygone era of scratchy phonograph records, faded photographs, hand-cranked movie cameras, staccato Morse telegraph messages, and rhythmic steam pumps. Machines of every description were shaping peoples' lives and changing them more rapidly than at any other time in history.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1984

Original language

English

Countries

Canada

Production

ONF,NFB

Director

Albert Kish

Producer

Barrie Howells,Adam Symansky,Albert Kish

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0222682