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watch?v=8OQJ4UrAVJw and prepare for a visit to the The Scottish Fisheries Museum, see the video links and the pull down links and you'll appreciate your visit much more!
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Is this Yarmouth, Isle of Wight ot Great Yarmouth in Norfolk? Does anybody know?
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Amen! If the makers of films like this knew Adam Sandler and Pauly Shore were gonna abuse their invention, they would have burned all evidence of these old films!
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Brittish are really foolish to accept these terms that they have to be enrolled in a U or go to certain libraries to see these clips. As you say: they pay the BFI. They have a right to watch these clips in their homes. Collectors preserve films. They give them to BFI so the films can go public. Why did they release so many Mitchell And Kenyon dvds? The founders surely insisted they were for the public. Previous collectors were fooled.
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What a complete idiot you are. People like you are so wrong, thinking about frontiers when it comes to world culture. I would willingly buy them on dvd if it existed. Most important Edison films are available online. We have some of canadian cinema available online. The 10 films from the first Lumière institute can be seen online (though thy should show a lot more). Only at BFI would you hear such stupid argument .
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so as a canadian your taxes have been paying to save these films have they? ppl in Briain can see the films at screen online so whats your problem? im sure the bfi will make them available in canada when you start paying for them
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Actually. We CAN'T see the films at Screen Online because they have that ridiculous "for english school only" blocking. How am I suppose to see Birt Acres's Henley Regata?? The wrong people are working in archives centres. It's always "protect, protect, noshow, noshow".
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Most droll. I couldn't agree more!
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very helpful for my drama a level thankyou.
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It's silent, it's blurry, it's poorly lit, it has no plot, it's only half a minute long, and for all that, it's STILL more entertaining than any Adam Sandler movie that I know of.
A decaying print of this long-lost film was discovered and duplicated just in time for 1996's celebration of 100 years of projected film in Britain. Among those who saw it in 1896 were members of the Royal Family, at a special screening of films put on by Birt Acres, pioneering maker of this and other very early "actuality" films. His precise motives may be impossible to reconstruct, and his shots of fishing smacks taken from Great Yarmouth's harbour are painfully brief. But they do suggest an early interest in film as a documentary record. Of similar length to the earliest web films of a century later, this is an example of how products of new media in their infancy have their own fragmentary fascination and beauty. (Patrick Russell) For more information about Birt Acres see http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/449777/index.html All titles on the BFI Films channel are preserved in the vast collections of the BFI National Archive. To find out more about the Archive visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections
Uma cópia decadente deste filme há muito tempo perdido foi descoberto e duplicado a tempo para a comemoração em 1996 do Centenário de Filmes exibidos na Grã-Bretanha. Entre aqueles que viram, em 1896, estavam membros da família real, em uma seleção especial de filmes escolhidos por Birt Acres, pioneiro fabricante deste e outros primórdios "actuality" (atualidade) filmes. Suas exatas motivações serão impossíveis de reconstituir, e as cenas da pesca tomadas a partir do porto de Great Yarmouth são dolorosamente curtas. Mas elas sugerem um interesse precoce em filme como registro documental.
De semelhante duração aos primeiros enredos de filmes de um século depois, este é um exemplo de como os produtos das novas mídias em seus primórdios têm seu desconexo fascínio e beleza. (Patrick Russell)
Para mais informações sobre Birt Acres ver http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/449777/index.html
Todos os títulos no canal BFI Films são preservados nas vastas colecções do Arquivo Nacional BFI. Para saber mais sobre o Arquivo visite http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections