4.7 / 10
(19 votes)
This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded weaving in one high-angle shot. For no apparent reason, the first shot made in Macedonia, in the Balkans in fact, made by these two cinematography pioneers, contains peculiar symbolics: at the moment when the grandmother Despina spins the weaving wheel, film starts rolling in our country.
Macedonia
Documentary
1 minutes
1905
Milton Manaki
1966
6.0
1922
7.1
1896
2.3
2000
10.0
1927
7.7
1979
7.0
1918
6.8
1896
5.1
1897
4.2
1898
5.2
1896
5.5
1897
4.2
1896
4.2
1898
3.8
1896
0.0
1897
5.5
1896
5.2
1897
4.3
1901
4.0
1900
5.0