When cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene navigated through 1920s London with his new color film camera he probably didn't expect that someone would do the exact same thing in the exact same places in 2013. After the British Film Institute restored Friese-Greene's footage, filmmaker Simon Smith decided to capture shots of every single place the cinematographer had visited and create a short film. To do this, Smith used modern equipment that most likely resembled what Friese-Greene had used. The six minute film shows images of popular areas in London today and has them side by side with their 1927 counterparts. Some of the locations include the London Bridge, Tower Bridge, Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament. Check out the side-by-side footage below: ...
- 1/16/2014
- by Eric Eidelstein
- Indiewire
The full-colour silent era footage that caused so much excitement online recently is almost like science-fiction
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London looks itself and other in this footage. For a 21st-century viewer it is like watching a science-fiction film in which almost everything is the same until you notice little differences that betray a completely alien quality. The past is another country, but in Claude Friese-Greene's film of the capital's streets and sights it is a place disguised as our own.
This is because this 1926 footage, which is currently a Twitter talking point, was shot in colour. Friese-Greene and his father William pioneered their own method of shooting in colour, back during the silent era: it is a byway of cinema history, an experiment that never caught on. In fact, it is part of a lost history of rival technologies in which Britain...
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London looks itself and other in this footage. For a 21st-century viewer it is like watching a science-fiction film in which almost everything is the same until you notice little differences that betray a completely alien quality. The past is another country, but in Claude Friese-Greene's film of the capital's streets and sights it is a place disguised as our own.
This is because this 1926 footage, which is currently a Twitter talking point, was shot in colour. Friese-Greene and his father William pioneered their own method of shooting in colour, back during the silent era: it is a byway of cinema history, an experiment that never caught on. In fact, it is part of a lost history of rival technologies in which Britain...
- 5/22/2013
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
The closest you and I will ever get to time travel. I’m running around London with my brother Ken this week -- he’s visiting from New York, and this is his first time in London -- and we’ll be seeing some of these same sites. I’ve been seeing some of these same sites for months now, and it’s amazing how little of it has changed. The people are the most changed: our clothes and gadgets, our bearing and walking speed, and so on. It’s a shame there’s no sound, but somehow it’s easier to imagine the sound watching this than it would be to imagine the color if it were black-and-white. By pioneering filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene, via How to Be a Retronaut.
- 5/23/2011
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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