In the predawn hours of cinema. . . In 1887, Edward Muybridge did not suspect that vertical video would become popular only in the XXI century with the advent of smartphones. “Woman Opens the Umbrella” is a film with great convention, as it consists of a series of quick photos, but before the appearance of the first full-fledged video remained another year, so what times, such and entertainment.
Muybridge, however, did not shoot an attraction or even a documentary, but rather an experimental one, because due to the lack of video recordings, many did not suspect how fast movements occur in the surrounding world. Probably, the first work that departs from the training part, was just this tape, since the posing model, opening the umbrella and lifting it above her head, is dressed in a transparent dress through which her body is clearly visible. It looks fascinating. I wonder if such costumes in those years were created massively, or for the filming of Muybridge sewed a special version? The shooting, judging by the background, took place in the same place where the film was shot "Woman goes to bed". It is a pity that the world of the XIX century is presented in early films so sparingly.
Of course, in 1887 on the big screens (if such were then available) “Woman opens the umbrella” was not released, because otherwise to this day necessarily would have remained angry reviews from the clergy, who a few years later will raze to dust “Kiss” of 1896. Let us not forget that cinema originated in Victorian England, when other views of life and art prevailed throughout Western Europe. Very soon those views were shaken. The world of cinema had to change as much as the surrounding reality.
9 out of 10