Kevin Turner, an NFL fullback who played for the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots, died Thursday. He was 46. A former Alabama standout who spent eight seasons in the NFL, Turner was diagnosed with Als, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in 2010. “Myra and I lost a great son today. He will be missed so much. Thank everyone so very much over this journey we have had for all your support, prayers,” his father, Raymond Turner, wrote on Facebook. “He was ready to go to Heaven excited he said. Love yall, and thanks God Bless.” Also Read: NFL Bashes New York.
- 3/24/2016
- by Debbie Emery
- The Wrap
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
His entry in the Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema claims that Edward Raymond Turner (along with Frederick Marshall Lee) patented the first three-color film process that led to a usable system. After you get over the shock of there being a Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema, check out the first color movies from the National Media Museum. Shot in 1902, the images were created by shooting the images through red, green and blue frames before projecting them one on top of the other. The restoration process is just as fascinating as the images themselves, and the new version of history that was uncovered in a storage room is something to think on. I wonder what Turner would think if he saw Avatar. I also wonder what antiques the people of 2122 will uncover from their archives to marvel at their primitiveness.
- 9/27/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The world's earliest colour film footage has been uncovered by this week, after resting in a tin for 110 years. The footage, which was shot by English inventor Edward Raymond Turner, features various test films of colourful objects, including a macaw, a goldfish, and children playing with sunflowers. The Film Stage reports that the film was discovered by Michael Harvey, curator of cinematography at the National Media Museum in Bradford, who worked with experts at the BFI National Archive to transfer the material into digital files. Film historians have regarded Turner's invention, which he collaborated on with entrepreneurs Frederick Marshall Lee and Charles Urban, as a (more)...
- 9/14/2012
- by By Paul Martinovic
- Digital Spy
Every once in awhile someone uncovers an amazing piece of cinematic history moldering away in a vault or museum somewhere, and it always makes me wonder what other forgotten treasures are languishing out there, waiting for someone to find them. The latest example is a discovery of the world’s first moving color pictures – crafted way back in 1902. The National Media Museum recently unearthed the footage in Bradford, where it’s been tucked away in an old tin for the past 110 years. Experts state this is a huge discovery in terms of cinema history. The earliest color footage on record prior to this was dated around 1909, and used an inferior Kinemacolor process. This newly discovered footage was shot by Edward Raymond Turner, who patented his own process in 1899...
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- 9/13/2012
- by Mike Bracken
- Movies.com
His name was Edward Raymond Turner and he was a man with a vision. Back in 1899 he figured out that by taking a film whose successive frames recorded different colours - red, green and blue - he could create the appearance of true colour on a cinema screen. In 1902 he took his camera into his garden and filmed his children. A few years ago, his film was discovered in the archives of Bradford's National Media Museum. Now it has been shown for the first time.
Although Turner's recording system was successful, the film it used was of a size incompatible with available projectors, so it never became a success. Colour films were already popular at the time but usually consisted of a colour wash designed to create a particular mood for a scene, as in the 1910 Frankenstein. Occasionally, frames were hand-painted to give colour to particular objects...
Although Turner's recording system was successful, the film it used was of a size incompatible with available projectors, so it never became a success. Colour films were already popular at the time but usually consisted of a colour wash designed to create a particular mood for a scene, as in the 1910 Frankenstein. Occasionally, frames were hand-painted to give colour to particular objects...
- 9/12/2012
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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