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Christopher Columbus

190412 minFrance
AdventureDrama

Synopsis

A series of tableaux follows Columbus from danger at sea to an American landing and a triumphant return to Spain. Courtly favor gives way to disgrace and imprisonment before a final celebratory image. The compressed biography is organized as a succession of public moments.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
14:11
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Vincent Lorant-Heilbronn · Public domain

DirectorsVincent Lorant-Heilbronn

Historical context

The Pathé production presents a European heroic view of the voyage and its aftermath. Its staged welcome by Indigenous people belongs to that representation, rather than serving as evidence of how the encounter occurred.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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