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The First Film
UK 2015
produced by
David Wilkinson, Doug Abbott (executive), Robert Worcester (executive) for Guerilla Films
directed by David Wilkinson
starring Bernard Atha, Tom Courtenay, Nigel Cross, Quentin Dowse, Tony Earnshaw, Joe Eszterhas, Paul Goodman, Louise A. Handley, Michael Harvey, Ronald Harwood, Stephen Herbert, Daniel Martin, Mick McCann, Beatrice Neumann, Tony North, Jacques Pfend, Tony Pierce-Roberts, Gavin Poolman, Mark Rance, Katharine Round, Liz Rymer, Irfan Shah, Laurie Snyder, Gordon Trewinnard, Carol S Ward, Adrian Wootton, and voice-overs by Stephane Cornicard, Sarah Lancashire, Ben Eagle
written by David Wilkinson, Irfan Shah, music by Christopher Barnett
documentary
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Outside of Leeds, Yorkshire, England, it is a little known fact that
the first motion picture camera might have been invented in, well, Leeds
(and by one Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, an inventor from France who
had found business and love in the North of England and thus stayed), and
the first movies might have been shot in Leeds, in 1888 - thus well before
Thomas Alva Edison patented the kinematograph in 1891. So why isn't Le
Prince held in higher regards for his invention? Because he disappeared
while on a train from Dijon to Paris in 1890, and nobody knows what might
have become of him, not even in the slightest ... What makes
this documentary so interesting though is that, despite its
director's/presenter's research going on for over 30 years, it's not just
a dull celebration of the man's genius but portrays the time Le Prince was
living in, the inventions he made that led to his movie camera (including
a 16 lense photo camera shooting consecutive shots onto a glass plate),
and the competition from back in the day that was all onto the same thing
- which at times led even the film's maker David Wilkinson to slight
despair when he learns that there might be film footage dated even earlier
than Le Prince's - fortunately all false alarms, so what we're left with
is Le Prince having indeed shot the oldest (verified) film footage, thus
indeed having made the first film, and a great big mystery about what has
happened to him. What makes this documentary really outstanding
though is that director/presenter David Wilkinson, who has been in the
business for more than 4 decades now, really loves and understands film,
so this documentary is properly built up for even those who are not into
film history, and he's so fascinated by the film's subject matter that he
doesn't only have an amazing array of expert at hand, he also risks being
proven wrong, just to make a worthy contribution to film history. And this
fascination is totally contagious, so if you haven't been into (ancient)
film history yet, you probably will be after watching this!
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