The Age of Invention

198410 min 45 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Albert Kish

Production: Albert KishAdam SymanskyBarrie Howells

The Age of Invention is a filmic poem about the coming of the machine age on the eve of World War I. A montage of images and sounds re-creates a bygone era--scratchy phonograph records, faded photographs, hand-cranked movie cameras, staccato Morse telegraph messages, rhythmic, rumbling steam pumps. Machines of every description were shaping peoples' lives; changing them more rapidly than at any other time in history; changing them forever.

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Subject categories

  • History > Technological Perspectives
  • Social Issues > Technology and Society
  • Technology > Technology and Society

Credits

director
Albert Kish
producer
Albert Kish
editing
Albert Kish
executive producer
Adam Symansky
Barrie Howells
cinematography
Andy Kitzanuk
sound
Bev Davidson
Hans Oomes
re-recording
Hans Peter Strobl
music
Ben Low
Keith Tedman

Awards

  • Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Visual EssaysItinerant - American Film and Video Festival