Best Film of 1877
- 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.