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Postcards From the Past

23 Aug 2020

Some unique postcards reveal the lives of the Friese-Greene children after the death of their father. … More Postcards From the Past

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Sci-Fi Movies Before Celluloid

28 Apr 2020

Years before H.G. Wells introduced us to his time traveller and marauding Martians, another writer was predicting what science might bring us in the future, for good or for ill. Once read on both sides of the Atlantic, he’s now all but forgotten. His name was Robert Duncan Milne and he was seeing moving pictures before there was even a strip of celluloid. … More Sci-Fi Movies Before Celluloid

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A Friese-Greene Christmas Carol

23 Dec 2019

A quasi-Dickensian true Christmas story of hardship softened by kindness. Featuring Will Day and William Friese-Greene. … More A Friese-Greene Christmas Carol

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That Friese-Greene feeling

12 Dec 2017

At one time he was patriotically championed as THE inventor of motion pictures, a British-sized Edison, whilst for the last sixty years he has tended to be viewed as a scientifically incompetent con-artist who is about as responsible for the birth of cinema as your Gran is for the birth of hip-hop. … More That Friese-Greene feeling

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