Birt Acres… WAS THIS THE FIRST COMMERCIAL EVER MADE?! 25 Nov 201924 Dec 2019 The exponential growth of online document archives has been a massive boon to historical researchers such as myself, but it also has its hazards. It's like a long, mysterious tunnel…
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…
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 201724 Dec 2019 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…
