Hitchcock's silents are now on the Memory of the World register – I can think of five others that deserve the same recognition
If, when you consider our national heritage, you think of murder, guilt, sex and cheeky humour – well, somebody out there agrees with you. The decision to add Alfred Hitchcock's nine surviving silent movies to Unesco's UK Memory of the World register puts his early work on a cultural par with the Domesday Book and Field Marshal Douglas Haig's war diaries – also selected for the list this year.
The nine silents were all directed by Hitchcock in the 1920s and include better-known films in the director's classic thriller mode such as The Lodger and Blackmail as well as comedies (Champagne, The Farmer's Wife) a boxing movie (The Ring) and dramas (The Pleasure Garden, Downhill, Easy Virtue and the lush, rustic romance The Manxman). The collection was nominated by the BFI,...
If, when you consider our national heritage, you think of murder, guilt, sex and cheeky humour – well, somebody out there agrees with you. The decision to add Alfred Hitchcock's nine surviving silent movies to Unesco's UK Memory of the World register puts his early work on a cultural par with the Domesday Book and Field Marshal Douglas Haig's war diaries – also selected for the list this year.
The nine silents were all directed by Hitchcock in the 1920s and include better-known films in the director's classic thriller mode such as The Lodger and Blackmail as well as comedies (Champagne, The Farmer's Wife) a boxing movie (The Ring) and dramas (The Pleasure Garden, Downhill, Easy Virtue and the lush, rustic romance The Manxman). The collection was nominated by the BFI,...
- 7/12/2013
- by Pamela Hutchinson
- The Guardian - Film News
The Telegraph (and the British Museum) have released this rather fabulous featurette which gives us a look at the first ever colour film. According to the story, the film was show in 1902 by ‘a little-known Edwardian photographer’ named Edward Turner.
Edward Turner patented his method of capturing moving colour images more than a decade before the invention of Technicolor. He filmed London street scenes, a pet macaw and his three children playing with a goldfish in the family’s back garden.
Over 100 years later, the National Media Museum in Bradford found the footage and set to work restoring it allowing us to see how Turner created the first ever colour video footage. Have a watch below. It’s simply brilliant!
Source: Telegraph
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Edward Turner patented his method of capturing moving colour images more than a decade before the invention of Technicolor. He filmed London street scenes, a pet macaw and his three children playing with a goldfish in the family’s back garden.
Over 100 years later, the National Media Museum in Bradford found the footage and set to work restoring it allowing us to see how Turner created the first ever colour video footage. Have a watch below. It’s simply brilliant!
Source: Telegraph
The post Video: First Colour Film Restored and Unveiled appeared first on HeyUGuys - UK Movie / Film Blog for News / Reviews / Interviews.
- 9/14/2012
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
British cinematographer's footage of his children, Brighton beach and Hyde Park, pre-date Edwardians' Kinemacolor
There is not much of a plot – goldfish in bowl – but the scene and others from the same rolls of film were revealed on Wednesday as the earliest colour moving images ever made in a discovery that does nothing less than "rewrite film history".
The National Media Museum in Bradford said it had found what it contends are truly historic films from 1901/02, pre-dating what had been thought to be the first successful colour process – Kinemacolor – by eight years.
"We believe this will literally rewrite film history," said the museum's head of collections, Paul Goodman. "I don't think it is an overstatement. These are the world's first colour moving images."
The films were made by a young British photographer and inventor called Edward Turner, a pioneer who can now lay claim to being the father of moving colour film,...
There is not much of a plot – goldfish in bowl – but the scene and others from the same rolls of film were revealed on Wednesday as the earliest colour moving images ever made in a discovery that does nothing less than "rewrite film history".
The National Media Museum in Bradford said it had found what it contends are truly historic films from 1901/02, pre-dating what had been thought to be the first successful colour process – Kinemacolor – by eight years.
"We believe this will literally rewrite film history," said the museum's head of collections, Paul Goodman. "I don't think it is an overstatement. These are the world's first colour moving images."
The films were made by a young British photographer and inventor called Edward Turner, a pioneer who can now lay claim to being the father of moving colour film,...
- 9/13/2012
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
London, September 13: Rolls of film found in a museum in UK dated to 1901 or 1902 making them the earliest colour movies in existence, have made a vivid macaw and a goldfish some of the world's first movie stars.
The moving pictures, which were found in the National Media Museum in Bradford, UK, were produced by photographer Edward Turner using a technique that is regarded by film historians as.
The moving pictures, which were found in the National Media Museum in Bradford, UK, were produced by photographer Edward Turner using a technique that is regarded by film historians as.
- 9/13/2012
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
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