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A short prior to World War I film which captures festivities at a fair near a church in Bitola.
Early Balkan footage.
Early Balkan footage.
Early Balkan footage.
Early Balkan footage.
Early Balkan footage.
The Visit of the Sultan Mehmed the Fifth Reshad to Salonika(1911)
Early Balkan footage.
The Celebration of St. Cyril and Methodius on the Main Street in Bitola(1905)
Early Balkan footage.
This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded weaving in one high-angle shot. For no apparent reason, the first shot made in Macedonia, in the Balkans in fact, made by these two cinematography pioneers, contains peculiar symbolics: at the moment when the grandmother Despina spins the weaving wheel, film starts rolling in our country.
The Manaki brothers have filmed a market.
A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.
A schoolclass in seen outside in Macedonia.
A brief scene at a sheep slaughterhouse.
Early Balkan footage.
Early Balkan footage.
A mass gathering of people.
Reprisals by the Turkish Army Against the Macedonian Population(1905)
The Manaki brothers document the hanged bodies in a town square, post-Ilinden Uprising; The disheartened mill about. The men were likely killed by Muslims loyal to the ruling Ottoman Empire in attempts to quash Macedonian support for Adrianople and greater Macedonian autonomy.
Early Balkan footage.
The Manaki brothers document the elegant wedding of a presumably popular couple.
The Celebration of the Religious Festival Epiphany(1905)
Early Balkan footage.
Milton Manaki
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