LEADER 03330nam 22004575 450 001 9910483430903321 005 20200702212401.0 010 $a3-030-17505-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-17505-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000008707672 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5830015 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-17505-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008707672 100 $a20190716d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Brighton School and the Birth of British Film /$fby Frank Gray 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (311 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a3-030-17504-9 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis 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 with a historiography of the Brighton School, the study goes on to examine the arrival of the first 35mm films in Britain, the first film exhibitions in Brighton and the first projection of film in Brighton. Both Smith and Williamson?s work features a progression from the production of single shot unedited films to multi-shot edited films. Their subject matter was inspired by a knowledge of contemporary pantomime, humour, literature, theatre, mesmerism, the magic lantern and current affairs and their practices were underpinned by active involvement in the new film trade. Through the exploration of how these filmmakers cultivated a new way of understanding film and its commercial potential, this book establishes them as key figures in the development of British film culture. . 606 $aMotion pictures?History 606 $aMotion pictures?Great Britain 606 $aFilm History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/413070 606 $aBritish Cinema and TV$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/413040 615 0$aMotion pictures?History. 615 0$aMotion pictures?Great Britain. 615 14$aFilm History. 615 24$aBritish Cinema and TV. 676 $a791.430941 676 $a791.43094109041 700 $aGray$b Frank$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01226517 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483430903321 996 $aThe Brighton School and the Birth of British Film$92847874 997 $aUNINA