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…
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…
