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Louis Le Prince – New Thinking: Part Two (Article) | Writer | 2023
An article, the second in a series, on Louis Le Prince for The Optilogue website, published in January. This series is, in a sense, the culmination of a decade of research. It is an attempt to provide the most accurate account of Louis Le Prince's work given to date.
"The best researched and reasoned account of Le P [Le Prince] that I have ever read" Stephen Bottomore (Author, The Titanic and Silent Cinema)
Louis Le Prince – New Thinking: Part Three (Article) | Writer | 2023
An article, the third in a series, on Louis Le Prince for The Optilogue website, published in January. This series is, in a sense, the culmination of a decade of research. It is an attempt to provide the most accurate account of Louis Le Prince's work given to date.
"...extraordinarily interesting, and very well researched and presented – a model of media archaeology" Ian Christie (Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck College, Author The Last Machine: Early Cinema and the Birth of the Modern World)
Wordsworth Donisthorpe and the Great What If? (Talk) | Writer, Performer | 2023
A talk given in September 2023 as part of the National Heritage Day Festival and in conjunction with the Northern Film School. It told the story of motion picture pioneer, Wordsworth Donisthorpe; looked at his inventions and discussed how they might have been influenced as much by wool-combing mechanisms as by cameras - it also made use of original research to shed light on Donisthorpe's attempts to finance his experiments through blackmail.