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Mouth Wide Open: A Journey in Film with Ted Coubray
Film (Excerpts) – 1998
"...mouth wide open, struck with stupor, surprised beyond expression..."– Reaction of French film pioneer George Méliès to the very first public screening of motion pictures, in December 1895
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