The Black Viper
The Black Viper
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The Black Viper

The Black Viper

1908
Drama
Short Film
10m
A thug accosts a girl as she leaves her workplace but a man rescues her. The thug vows revenge and, with the help of two friends, attacks the girl and her rescuer again as they're going for a walk. This time they succeed in kidnapping the rescuer. The girl runs home and gets help from several neighbors. They track the ruffians down to a cabin in the mountains where the gang has trapped their victim and set the cabin on fire. (imdb)

The Black Viper

1908
Drama
Short Film
10m
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Rated 22 Jun 2014
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21st
One of Griffith's prototypical chase and rescue shorts. Chase films were already a popular genre, but Griffith did raise the standard for how to frame and edit them a bit (maintaining the direction of motion from one shot to the next for stronger continuity, occasional crosscutting, etc.). It's still dull to watch now, especially since he's still shooting action scenes from so far away at this point.

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