the beginnings and the future : essays marking the centenary of the first film show projected to a paying audience in Britain Williams, Christopher. 1939- text uik London University of Westminster Press 1996 monographic eng spa

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263 s. : ill. These essays mark the hundredth anniversary of the first projected film screening to a paying audience in Britain, by the Lumiere Cinematographe at the Polytechnic Institution in Regent Street, London, in February 1896. Contributors include David Robinson, John Barnes and Sylvia Harvey. Part A1 Around a Premiere. 1. Natural magic and science fiction:instruction, amusement and the popular show, 1795-1895 -- 2. The Magic Lantern's wild years -- 3. Realising the vision:300 years of cinematography -- 4. Premiere on Regent Sgtreet -- 5. Frameup -- 6. Filming scenes in the United kingdom for the Cinematographe Lumiere -- 7. Marketing the Cinematographe in Britain -- 8. Evidence of editing in the Lumiere films -- 9. Back to Lumiere, or, The Dream of an Essence: some untimely considerations about a French Myth. Part 2. Early Cinema -- Then and Now. 10. the diffuse beam:cinema and change -- 11. Sport and the first films -- 12. The treats of trickery -- 13. The role of the intertitle in film exhibition, 1904-1910 -- 14. 'Nine Days' Wonder': early cinema and its sceptics -- 15. The attractions of cinema, or, how I l learned to start worrying about loving early film -- 16. Re-creating the first film shows. Part 3. Towards the Future. 17. Cut and shuffle -- 18. Little big screen -- 19. the social art cinema:a moment in the history of British Film and Television Culture -- 20. Don't cry for me when I'm gone:motion pictures in the 1990s -- 21. Read only memory:the re-creation of sensorial experience in 3D and CD-ROM -- 22. Back to the future: the cinema's lessons of history -- 23. What is cinema? the sensuous, the abstract and the political. edited by Christopher Williams. Películas Cinematografía PN 1994 C574 1996 791.43 1859190073 9781859190074 185919012X 9781859190128 DKDLA 091125 20230411090039.0 dan