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2	[[caption-width-right:340:Rip wakes up needing a shave.]]
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4	''Rip Van Winkle'' is an 1896 film starring Joseph Jefferson. This film, one of the earliest uses of film to tell a narrative story--maybe the earliest--was an adaptation of Jefferson's stage play, itself an adaptation of the Creator/WashingtonIrving [[Literature/RipVanWinkle short story]]. It was directed by film pioneer William K.L. Dickson.
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6	The film is seven short scenes depicting Rip Van Winkle wandering into the forest, meeting some strange people, drinking with them, then passing out. He wakes up after a twenty-year nap, now with a long white beard. Initially the clips were exhibited as part of vaudeville shows. In 1903 the Biograph film company released the seven clips together as a single 4 1/2 minute film.
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8	''Rip Van Winkle'' is not really that interesting as a dramatic film, but it is important due to its status as one of the first narrative films made anywhere. It has a place in the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry.
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10	You can watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLaWj1dvCjA here]].
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13	!!Tropes:
14	* DontGoInTheWoods: After throwing back a drink with a buddy, Rip is just standing around when a dwarf shows up with a keg, and suggests Rip follow him into the woods. Rip does so. It turns out to be a bad idea.
15	* InformedAttribute: The "dwarf" that brings Rip a cask of alcohol is clearly a grown man who is crouching down in order to look short.
16	* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: A weird dwarf brings Rip a cask and lures him into the woods.
17	* NoEnding: The film ends abruptly, as Rip climbs to the top of a rock and looks back towards Sleepy Hollow.
18	* TheOldestOnesInTheBook: Literally, as far as narrative film goes. Joseph Jefferson was born in ''1829''. His is one of the the earliest birthdays of any actor in the Internet Movie Database.
19	* RipVanWinkle: Duh. Sure enough, Rip wakes up with a long white beard after drinking the dwarves' liquor and falling asleep.
20	* RobeAndWizardHat: The strange men that Rip drinks with in the forest, "Hudson's crew"--the original story suggests that they're the ghosts of Henry Hudson and his crew--are dressed this way.

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