Grandma Despina

Grandma Despina — Plot

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.

• Release date
• November 2, 1905
• Runtime
• 1 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Yanaki Manaki