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In fact, in 1887, just six years before the first commercially produced motion pictures would be shot by Edison’s team, none of that was clear at all. For a start, people didn’t photograph on film, they used glass. Some stiff, transparent sheets of materials were being experimented with as a substitute, but were not widely […]

A celebration of Bristol as a world-renowned centre for film-making.

In the early 1990s, I had been living in Bristol for several years, getting ever more involved in film and video-making, when I stopped to read a plaque I’d often walked past. It was by a doorway, opposite Maggs department store on Queen’s Road, and it said: ON THIS SITE W. FRIESE-GREENE THE INVENTOR OF […]

Cinemas and cities are inextricably linked. Not only did the cinema start and evolve in cities but cinema and film remain an integral part of city life, living, leisure and learning. Bristol is a city where cinema remains particularly prominent. It has an important history of film making (this year Bristol is marking the centenary […]

This essay has been commissioned as part of our Film2021 project. Visit the project page to find out more. ‘You know, it’s a quite extraordinary feeling. . . Something you’ve been thinking and dreaming about for 15 years. . . Fifteen years! . . .And then, all of a sudden it’s there. . . in your […]

Members from Bristol’s film community gathered in remembrance of William Friese-Greene.

This report provides a summary of what was discussed on the day. The event was hosted by Andrew Kelly, Director of Bristol Ideas. In addition to the presentations and panels, five of the contributors to the book Opening Up the Magic Box read extracts from their essays (Edson Burton, Malaika Kegode, Stephen Lightbown, Mani Kidston, […]

William Friese-Greene. Sequences of images taken about 1885 to recreate movement. These cyclical sequences were projected using a lantern designed by John Arthur Roebuck Rudge. (Science Museum Group, objects 1994-5014/6, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Licence) Sometimes it can take a long time to develop and deliver a project. In the case of William Friese-Greene and […]

But to me, the idea of a travelogue of Britain shot in colour in the mid-1920s (when there was little colour filming) seemed to be of clear interest. I was fortunate in that I encountered Luke McKernan there, who would become a prominent authority on early British cinema and is now Lead Curator of News […]

Originally Friese-Greene’s The Open Road was intended to be shown weekly in cinemas. The 26 short episodes combine to form a unique social document of life in Britain between the wars. Friese-Greene takes us on a journey that encompasses Plymouth, a hunt on Exmoor, the docks of Cardiff, the pleasure beach at Blackpool and more. […]

Author, critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson explores the role of film critics in rethinking and reframing film heritage and the importance of looking back to understand and explore what’s happening in film culture right now. With an increasing number of distributors, cinemas, festivals and online platforms dedicated to repertory and archive films, there are […]

This is part of the heritage project Opening Up the Magic Box within the Film 2021 programme, which marks the centenary of the death of Bristol-born cinema innovator William Friese-Greene (1855-1921). The shorts will be screening in Watershed’s café/bar from 4.00pm to 5.30pm (FREE drop-in). The selection will also be shown on The Big Screen on Millennium […]