Brighton School ( fr. : L'école de Brighton ) was a loosely associated group of pioneering filmmakers active in the Brighton and Hove area of England from 1896 to 1910. It was mostly a series of shorts and early projects made in the Brighton area.
11-1250: Brighton School may refer to: Brighton Schools Brighton School (filmmaking) , a loosely associated group of filmmakers active in the Brighton and Hove area of England 1896-1910 Brighton School (Sacramento, California) , a property on the National Register of Historic Places Brighton School (Lynnwood, Washington) , a private K-8 school Brighton School (Toronto) Schools of Brighton Brighton Area Schools , Brighton, Metro Detroit, Michigan, USA Brighton Central School District , Monroe County, New York State, USA List of schools in Brighton and Hove , East Sussex, England, UK List of former board schools in Brighton and Hove See also [ edit ] Brighton Grammar School , Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Brighton Business School , University of Brighton, Brighton, Sussex, England, UK Brighton and Sussex Medical School , Brighton, Sussex, England, UK Brighton High School (disambiguation) Brighton College (disambiguation) Brighton (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
22-446: A profound impact on the development of editing strategies and become a dominant practice." Regarding the film itself, Screenonline reviewer Michael Brooke points out that "the lighting here is totally unrealistic - we can see everything that's going on," and, "no attempt has been made at realism in the setting - the " carriage is very obviously a painted flat that has been decorated with various props: luggage, parasols and so on, though
33-403: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Brighton School (filmmaking) The core membership of the group consists of filmmakers George Albert Smith , James Williamson and Esmé Collings as well as engineer Alfred Darling ; other names associated with the group include Collings' former business partner William Friese-Greene and
44-591: The British Film Institute in 1948. The Kiss in the Tunnel The Kiss in the Tunnel , also known as A Kiss in the Tunnel , is a 1899 British short silent , comedy film , produced and directed by George Albert Smith , showing a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel, which is said to mark the beginnings of narrative editing. The film is
55-460: The camera has been made to sway from side to side to create the illusion of movement." The film was remade under the same title by Bamforth and Company the same year, although they, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "adopted a rather less stylised and noticeably more passionate approach to the brief encounter of the title;" other imitations include S. Lubin's Love in a Railroad Train (1902) and Edwin S. Porter 's What Happened in
66-492: The first close-up in the film Grandma’s Reading Glass (1900) and zoom in the film The Big Swallow (1901), achieved by moving the camera closer to the subject. Smith's The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) is considered to mark the beginnings of narrative editing. Despite being known as the Brighton School, both George Albert Smith and James Williamson lived and worked in nearby Hove , where they built film studios on
77-428: The first to feature Laura Bayley, Smith's wife. The director, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "felt that some extra spice was called for," in the then-popular 'phantom ride' genre, which featured shots taken from the front of a moving train, "and devised a shot showing a brief, almost furtive moment of passion between two passengers, taking advantage of the brief onset of darkness." Just this middle shot
88-404: The grounds of their houses. Towards the end of the period, the filmmakers increasingly gave way to their scientific and economic pursuits. The Hove Museum of Creativity has a permanent exhibition dedicated to the filmmakers. The term was coined by French film historian Georges Sadoul in an article that was translated and re-published in pamphlet form as British Creators of Film Technique by
99-516: The group's London-based distributor Charles Urban . While they were not the only early filmmakers working in Britain between the years 1895 and 1907, the group is considered to be the most prolific and influential. They are particularly known for their use of innovative techniques, including colour tinted films, trick photography , the first reverse angle shot in Attack on a China Mission (1900)
110-479: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Brighton School . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brighton_School&oldid=1086239986 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
121-500: Was offered by The Warwick Trading Company to exhibitors, who were advised, "to splice it into train footage," such as Cecil Hepworth 's View from an Engine Front - Train Leaving Tunnel (1899), "that they almost certainly would own from previous programmes". This insertion of a single shot into another film indicates, according to film historian Frank Gray, "a new understanding of continuity film editing," which "would have
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