The Brighton School and the Birth of British Film
2019 | ISBN: 3030175049 | English | 311 pages | PDF | 4 MB

This study is devoted to the work of two early British filmmakers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 1900. Internationally, they are known collectively as the �Brighton School� and are positioned as being at the forefront of Britain�s contribution to the birth of film. The book focuses on the years 1896 to 1903, as it was during this short period that film emerged as a new technology, a new enterprise and a new form of entertainment. Beginning