movie about ancient movies

nytecam · #1 (**permalink**) 17-07-2009, 07:33 PM

YouTube - UK 'secret' studio predates Hollywood!

nytecam · #2 (**permalink**) 18-07-2009, 09:47 AM

Here's a pic of the museum - a lay building of some mystery - it was never a church [it looks like one] but the floor is 4ft below the current street level [note low door on right] and the [so called 'cat'] pit at the rear decends another 8-10ft lower down to about sea's high tide mark in harbour opposite and in the intervening 1000 years since built sea level has dropped markedly along the English south coast

nytecam · #3 (**permalink**) 22-07-2009, 07:01 PM

Further to my earlier posts apparently George Smith - a Brighton showman - invented the movie close-up, cross-cutting and other techniques common now to movie/ video making early in 1900s - all revealed in BBC's "Coast" series at

BBC iPlayer - Coast: Series 4: Whitstable to Isle of Wight

at 37.15 - 46.30 Enjoy