The Brighton School and the Birth of British Film

• Main Author: Gray, Frank (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Motion pictures-History.; Motion pictures-Great Britain.; Film History.; British Cinema and TV.

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 contri...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Investigating the Brighton School
• 3. Invention and Wonder: The Arrival of Film in Britain and Brighton, 1894-96
• 4. Wonders and Marvels - Smith's Early Years
• 5. 1897: Smith Turns to Film
• 6. Smith's Visions and Transformations: the Films of 1898
• 7. Smith's Edited Films, 1899-1903
• 8. Williamson's Kinematograph Films
• 9. Williamson's Picture Stories
• 10. Transitions, Chains and Flows.