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Captain Leale Martelli - The Odyssey in the Realms of Time
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<blockquote data-quote="steven chiverton" data-source="post: 169181" data-attributes="member: 7378"><p>REVIEW « THE CHRONOSCOPE BY LORENZO DAVIA HE CHRONOSCOPE IS A MOCKUMENTARY (A fake documentary) directed by Andrew Legge about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel (Serena Brabazon) who in 1938 discovers a type of light that travels at low speed. Notwithstanding the incredulity of the scientific community, she creates the Chronoscope, a device that can see in the past. She wants to utilize it to see the true past but the images that the machine produces contradict established history. When the Chronoscope shows that a recently proclaimed saint had a worldly lover, it upsets the Church. Then Nazis kidnap her because they want to use her device to show all the world the past glory of the Aryan race. When the Chronoscope shows only villages of primitives, the Nazis are furious and Charlotte must plot an escape. The short movie has a brilliant style that is reminiscent of the documentaries and movies of the 1930s to the point that there is no distinction between existing period footage and present day shots; other historical footage was modified in order to add elements coherent with the story. Legge is not new to this type of film. His previous The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish, a tale of a young inventor and his time machine, seamlessly combined scenes of Dublin shot in 1897 with new material shot on a clockwork 16mm Russian ‘Krasnogorsk’ camera. The Chronoscope is a very interesting mockumentary with many layers of interpretations. It is about the role of women in science; it is about the responsibilities of the scientist toward society and finally it is a work against the stupidity of nationalism. It is also a good example of how a steampunk idea can be used in a past setting to tell us something about that past and about our present at the same time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="steven chiverton, post: 169181, member: 7378"] REVIEW « THE CHRONOSCOPE BY LORENZO DAVIA HE CHRONOSCOPE IS A MOCKUMENTARY (A fake documentary) directed by Andrew Legge about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel (Serena Brabazon) who in 1938 discovers a type of light that travels at low speed. Notwithstanding the incredulity of the scientific community, she creates the Chronoscope, a device that can see in the past. She wants to utilize it to see the true past but the images that the machine produces contradict established history. When the Chronoscope shows that a recently proclaimed saint had a worldly lover, it upsets the Church. Then Nazis kidnap her because they want to use her device to show all the world the past glory of the Aryan race. When the Chronoscope shows only villages of primitives, the Nazis are furious and Charlotte must plot an escape. The short movie has a brilliant style that is reminiscent of the documentaries and movies of the 1930s to the point that there is no distinction between existing period footage and present day shots; other historical footage was modified in order to add elements coherent with the story. Legge is not new to this type of film. His previous The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish, a tale of a young inventor and his time machine, seamlessly combined scenes of Dublin shot in 1897 with new material shot on a clockwork 16mm Russian ‘Krasnogorsk’ camera. The Chronoscope is a very interesting mockumentary with many layers of interpretations. It is about the role of women in science; it is about the responsibilities of the scientist toward society and finally it is a work against the stupidity of nationalism. It is also a good example of how a steampunk idea can be used in a past setting to tell us something about that past and about our present at the same time. [/QUOTE]
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