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Best movie of this year hands down!

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

good back-story, and good acting

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

From what I understand, this is not the only Sandow film out there. Edison made several films on this strong guy, but I've only seen the one included on "The Great Train Robbery and other Primary Works" disc. And apparently that one is the first.Originally entitled "Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope" I'm guessing Edison and Co thought this would be their only film about Sandow. So when they made others they changed its name to "Sandow No. 1". About 20 seconds long (the version on the DVD I own is that long because it was under-cranked a tiny bit) this short features Sandow showing off his muscles. That is all. While it might've (hey, I made a joke, ha ha) been nice for him to actually perform a stunt or two, what's here isn't all that bad and while it might (there I go again) be only mildly impressive it is history. And, considering the Edison film strips were only about that long at the time, you can't really blame them.Worth seeing, but more for the fact it's a piece of history than for entertainment. Too bad Sandow isn't still alive, I could've learned something from him...

Eugen Sandow appeared in quite a few very early short film late in the 19th century and early in the 20th, but at least about this one here, i cannot really see the appeal. He wears nothing but a slip (and a prominent mustache) and shows us his repertoire of how he loves to flex his very well-trained muscles. Maybe a vintage Schwarzenegger, but I can not really see any redeemable or artistic qualities in this 45-second (fairly long for that time) short film by silent movie pioneer William K.L. Dickson. It's all posing, but I wasn't impressed beyond the physical strength. Definitely one of the director's weaker films, but with his quantity not everyone can be a winner.

This is the first Edison film that actually features a 'celiberity', which makes this a bit more than just another typical usual Edison Manufacturing Company film, by William K.L. Dickson.The man in the film was Eugen Sandow (real name Friederich Wilhelm Mueller). He claimed to have been the strongest person alive at the time and who knows, maybe he was. I mean, it was not like bodybuilding was an extremely popular or common thing back in 1894. He was quite a celebrity back in his time and had friends in the highs societies of which Thomas Edison also appeared to be one of. He also seemed to be a generous person, who also contributed a lot to the world of bodybuilding. Some of his influences and ideas are even still notable today.He takes lots of different positions within this short film, exhibiting his muscular physique. Sometimes he goes a bit out of frame with his arms, which of course obviously was not intended and sort of makes you question if Edison and Co. were also happy with the result.Even though he was only 27 at the time, he looked much older. He also died at a fairly young age of 58 years. But who knows, perhaps he looks old in this because the image quality of course also isn't the highest.Perhaps historical a significant film because of the person that's featuring in it, but from a more experimentally significant kind of view, this film doesn't add an awful lot.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Strongman Eugene Sandow made his motion picture debut in this film. The Edison organization - probably in the person of W.K.L. Dickson himself since he uses a quote from a book he wrote with his sister - was so proud of this fact that they printed up a Souvenir strip showing 12 stills from the movie and with the following description:"Observe that each picture has a slight change of position as it passes the point of vision. The rapid photographing of these different stages of movement at the rate of 46 to 50 a second or 2760 upon a long strip of light sensitive film creates the illusionary spectacle of moveable figures." From "The Life and Inventions of Edison - by Antonia and W.K.L. Dickson.