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Historian fights to establish William Friese-Greene as true father of cinema
On the centenary of his death, admirers hope to win recognition for the Bristol photographer’s motion picture camera
William Friese-Greene in about 1919, two years before his sudden death, aged 65, at a film distributors’ meeting. Photograph: Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images
William Friese-Greene in about 1919, two years before his sudden death, aged 65, at a film distributors’ meeting. Photograph: Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images
Sun 2 May 2021 02.30 EDT
It’s a strange fact, but British inventor William Friese-Greene is as well-known among serious film buffs for
not having invented cinema as he is for inventing it. Now, on the centenary of his sudden death at 65, mid-flow at a meeting of film distributors, admirers of this controversial pioneer from Bristol are at the centre of a new drive to establish his international legacy once again.
In the beginning: cinemaâs murky origin story
Everyone knows that the Lumière brothers invented cinema, right? Well, up to a point: the story is more complicated than thatâ¦
27 February 2021
Birt Acres filming the Derby at Epsom on 29 May 1895
The familiar story is that cinema was born when the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumière staged their first ticketed film show in Paris on 28 December 1895. But while that is the version of the facts embedded in movie history, it is not true.
A woman looking into a kinetoscope
The movie business did not begin with films projected on a screen but viewed in a box: the Edison âKinetoscopeâ. For their money, the customer of 1894 would bend over, peer through a hole and view a tiny but vivid staged sequence lasting around 17 seconds. This was the culmination of a six-year project at the Edison works, overseen by William Dickson.
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