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Movie poster: U.S. Troops Landing at Daiquiri, Cuba (1898)
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U.S. Troops Landing at Daiquiri, Cuba

1898 · 1 min
3.0 / 10 · TMDB

"The first U.S. Troops to land, June 22, 1898. Transports in the distance. Soldiers clamber up from boats onto the long railroad pier." - from the Edison Catalog

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Year 1898
Country Cuba
Director William C. Paley
Runtime 1 min.
Rating TMDB: 3.0/10 (6 votes)

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The film constructs its power from raw documentality, relying on a static frame to act as an unblinking historical retina. It does not narrate but presents, transforming the celluloid into a primary source.

What lingers after viewing is the weight of authentic moment, where each moving figure is a life cast into the machinery of history. It is cinema as a fossilized gesture. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: William C. Paley

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Watch as a silent artifact, contemplating each figure as a fragment of history.

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