EPISODE · Oct 30, 2023 · 35 MIN
E02 - Dickson Greeting (1891)
from Hard Knocks Film School · host Chloe Hoover and Timothy Linville
Send a textWelcome back to Hard Knocks Film School! This week we will be discussing the few surviving films from 1889 to 1891, when the “moving pictures” were still busy being invented. What survives from this period are experimental films or “actualités”. New characters arriving on the scene this week are Wordsworth Donisthorpe, William Friese-Greene, and William K Dickson.Links to stuff we talked about:London’s Trafalgar Square (1890), filmed by Wordsworth Donisthorpe - https://youtube.com/shorts/VlP_lCYCx7s?si=crQw_RMDCzMdsHVaWilliam Friese-Greene, King’s Road (1891) - https://youtu.be/eQ5MZt3qEW0?si=7KprwZOGN767aVPnBack in Focus: The Centenary of William Friese-Greene - https://www.youtube.com/live/62OiHjLlAl4?si=q4_jajqHqvSuaC3vDickson Greeting (1891) - https://youtu.be/S5TrvT97Jpg?si=2GiLoUfGE_L_s9TjMonkeyshines no. 1 & 2 (1890) - https://youtu.be/fhNqWBaKkII?si=0ak7MB18hEnmPEoF
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Send a text Welcome back to Hard Knocks Film School! This week we will be discussing the few surviving films from 1889 to 1891, when the “moving pictures” were still busy being invented. What survives from this period are experimental films or “actualités”. New characters arriving on the scene this week are Wordsworth Donisthorpe, William Friese-Greene, and William K Dickson. Links to stuff we talked about: London’s Trafalgar Square (1890), filmed by Wordsworth Donisthorpe - https://you...
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