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Strange Cult of the Roundhay Garden Scene

JamesWhitehead

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The Roundhay Garden Scene is a precious fragment of moving picture history. If you don't know it already, you should see the original 1888 version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1i40rnpOsA

Now, let's see what some slackers did with that for their homework:

(NB: Some of the intertitles contain rude words!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDOqJxCfO8Y&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU-mIQBq ... re=related

Enjoy that? Now they all crowd onto the imdb to create a message-board to parody the over-plentiful youthful enthusiasts who make the place a mud-bath:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392728/board/threads/

Standard threads include Greatest Film Ever! and This Film Sucks! There follow discussions of a 2-disc Special Edition and Who is the Hottest? :)

edit 9:24 pm, corrected daft order of clauses in opening sentence(s)
 
i liked the bit in the first spoof where the well appeared and sadako popped out!

not filmed at roundhay park, leeds, by any chance? i'm sure the oldest piece of film (for a while) was a few seconds of a horse and cart going over leeds bridge...
 
JamesWhitehead said:
Standard threads include Greatest Film Ever! and This Film Sucks! There follow discussions of a 2-disc Special Edition and Who is the Hottest? :)
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I'm surprised they missed out "Is this film gay?"
 
I'm surprised they missed out "Is this film gay?"
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maybe we should post a link to it over on outpost gallifrey. they'll have a gay agenda thread on it in no time! :shock: :(
 
There might be something on this in Forgotten History, but with the search function being what it is and that thread being huge, it's more findable to drop this here.

Was watching Rob Dyke's Seriously Strange: Unexplained Disappearances II and one of the cases in Louis le Prince.

Rob Dyke is very listenable to so I recommend the above link, the great god wiki has this to say on Louis:

In October 1888, Le Prince filmed moving picture sequences Roundhay Garden Scene and a Leeds Bridge street scene using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper film.[4] These were several years before the work of competing inventors such as Auguste and Louis Lumière and Thomas Edison.

He was never able to perform a planned public demonstration in the United States because he mysteriously vanished from a train on 16 September 1890.[1] His body and luggage were never found, but, over a century later, a police archive was found to contain a photograph of a drowned man who could have been him.[4] Not long after Le Prince's disappearance, Thomas Edison tried to take credit for the invention. But Le Prince’s widow and son, Adolphe, were keen to advance his cause as the inventor of cinematography. In 1898 Adolphe appeared as a witness for the defence in a court case brought by Edison against the American Mutoscope Company, claiming that Edison was the first and sole inventor of cinematography (and thus entitled to royalties for the use of the process). He was not allowed to present the two cameras as evidence (and so establish Le Prince’s prior claim as inventor) and eventually the court ruled in favour of Edison; a year later that ruling was overturned.[5]
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Makes me wonder too if Edison invented anything at all, or just had really good lawyers. :evil:
 
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