Wikipedia wrote:
The Strike (French: La Grève) is a 1904 French silent short film directed by Ferdinand Zecca and distributed in France by Pathé Frères. The film depicts a strike in a factory violently repressed by the Gendarmerie.

According to Richard Abel, The Strike was one of the few films shown in America at the time representing labor unrest. He notes that when it was screened in December 1904, in Boston, “the film was watched with deep interest, ending in applause”. He also mentions that the film received good notices in the 1904 reports of the Keith movie theatre managers of Cleveland and New York.

Richard Abel mentions The Strike as an early example of a transformation of film discourse, where frame changes are used within a continuous flow of action, “not only to reconstruct a synthetic diegetic space for that action, but also to elicit, suspend and fulfill narrative expectation”. He stresses in particular how it creates an unusually “deep space” playing area and how in scene 2 the camera pans to follow the crowd “perhaps in an attempt to reproduce the verisimilitude of an actualité”.

La.greve.1904.WEB.1080p.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	5 min 18 s
Size: 	126 MiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 311 kb/s
BPP: 	0.064
Audio

https://nitro.download/view/95BAE50B6C0EB54/La.greve.1904.WEB.1080p.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/3E6A73B03183984/La.greve.1904-EN.srt

Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:French intertitles, English

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