Who's Who of Victorian Cinema

It is sad to have to report the death last month of Brian Coe, one of the original contributors to the Who's Who of Victorian Cinema book. Brian was Curator of the Kodak Museum 1969-1984, then Cu...

An astonishing discovery was unveiled at the 2007 Giornate del Cinema Muto, held in Pordenone, Italy. Ninety-three films taken in Palestine, Egypt and Turkey in 1897 (or possibly a little later) ...

The first patentee of the Zoetrope, and the person who gave it its name, was William E. Lincoln (1847-19??), a fact not previously recorded in the literature on 'pre-cinema' and nineteenth-centur...

From 24 September, the UK Screen Heritage Network is organising an online survey of UK museums and other collections which hold artefacts associated with the moving image and other screen-relate...

The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a children's novel by Brian Selznick, designed for the 9-12 age group. It is a historical mystery story, set in Paris in the early 1930s, in a mixture of text and ...

QUEEN VICTORIA COMES TO CANTERBURY (July 2007) The Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee show is featuring at this year's Canterbury Festival. The show is a recreation of QUEEN VICTORIA 's tour around...

The latest feature to be added to the Who's Who of Victorian Cinema web site is WHEN THE MOVIES BEGAN . This is a chronology of the world's film productions and film shows before May 1896. It was...

In October 1888 the French born inventor LOUIS AIMÉ AUGUSTIN LE PRINCE recorded what is thought to be the first film in the history of cinema. His subject was Leeds Bridge – the ebb and flow ...

Early film and pre-cinema publishers The Projection Box have announced a new award for essays on projected and moving images to 1915. The aims of this award are to encourage new research and new...

Who's Who of Victorian Cinema now features an RSS news feed. The feed will provide you with all of the news on Victorian cinema (the era of motion pictures 1871-1901) as it is published on this ...