Introducing Mr. F-G… William Friese-Greene & The Art of Collaboration 26 Apr 2018 Last Friday I got back to doing something I used to do 20 years ago: talking about William Friese-Greene in public. The occasion was the British Silent Film Symposium 2018…
Introducing Mr. F-G Friese-Greene Talks! 13 Apr 201813 Apr 2018 The last time I spoke about William-Friese Greene in public was 20 years ago, but next week that silence will be broken. Me and Willie have had our on and…
Moving Pictures That Eureka Moment – 5 21 Feb 201821 Feb 2018 “When are you going to get to the point?” is an entirely justifiable cry to escape from you, my dear, (im)patient reader. Well, I have been working on something rather…
Introducing Mr. F-G Old School vs New School 11 Jan 201811 Jan 2018 These two contrasting books about William Friese-Greene came through my letterbox this week. In the Blue Corner we have "Close-up of an Inventor" from 1948, written (under a pseudonym) by…
Moving Pictures That Eureka Moment – 4 3 Jan 20183 Jan 2018 To some it would have been the most boring place in the world, but to me it was Aladdin’s Cave. It was March 1996 and I was in the deepest,…
Moving Pictures That Eureka Moment – 3 20 Dec 201720 Dec 2017 There are some photographs of Friese-Greene’s early film experiments that seem to have been wilfully ignored by historians writing about the beginnings of cinema. My guess is that this is…
Moving Pictures That Eureka Moment – 2 15 Dec 201720 Dec 2017 You can’t keep a good man down – and when you’re talking about a compulsive inventor, that goes to the power of ten. At the end of the first part…
Moving Pictures That Eureka Moment – 1 13 Dec 201721 Feb 2018 Every story of an inventor needs its “Eureka!” Moment where the forces of the universe combine with sleepless slog to generate the breakthrough that he/she has been striving for. In…
Introducing Mr. F-G That Friese-Greene feeling 12 Dec 201713 Dec 2017 Hi. Before we get too deep into all this, how about a beer first? In fact, how about a FRIESE-GREENE ALE? I mean, anyone who has had a beer named…
