Happy 125th Birthday, Cinema! Part 2
20 May 2020
The forgotten and erased story of the real beginning of cinema. Part2: The first films show. … More Happy 125th Birthday, Cinema! Part 2
Category: The first cameras
Happy 125th Birthday, Cinema! Part 1
20 May 2020
The forgotten and erased story of the real beginning of cinema. Part 1: the team assembles. … More Happy 125th Birthday, Cinema! Part 1
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
WAS THIS THE FIRST COMMERCIAL EVER MADE?!
25 Nov 2019
New research has revealed the first advertising film in the world, seen in London in 1896. … More WAS THIS THE FIRST COMMERCIAL EVER MADE?!
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 and the place was King’s College London. Almost as terrifying as finding myself in front of a roomful of early film history experts was using … More William Friese-Greene & The Art of Collaboration
