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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 18 2013 @ 10:59 AM EDT |
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 18 2013 @ 11:31 AM EDT |
For those who don't like shortened URL's here you go
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<A
href="http://www.youtube.com/user/BFIfilms/videos?query=the+open+road"
>bfi films on youtube</a><P>
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The into to the John Brown Shipyard sequence shows two (IMHO) memorable things.
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1 - A Clyde Puffer like the Vital Spark<br>
2 - A paddle Steamer.<br>
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The scenes of Edinburgh from the mound bring back a lot of memories. Then it
cuts to Pricess St and you can see the trams which will soon return.<P>
Before the trams there was the same Cable Railway system that San Francisco is
so proud of. The ironic thing is that Old Reekie had a bigger network of them
than SF ever had.
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The BFI has thousands of reels of really historic film. I onle wish that more is
available to the public but a lot of it is still on old acetate film stock. This
is highly flammable.
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Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, May 19 2013 @ 11:14 AM EDT |
London in 1927 --- RMS: The 4
Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Tkilgore on Sunday, May 19 2013 @ 05:10 PM EDT |
After seeing the excerpt of the film shown in the news pick, I was curious to
see if there is a Wikepedia article about Claude Friese-Greene, who made the
film.
There is. There is also a mention of a patent battle which took place between
his father (the developer of the method which Claude F.-G. used in that film to
produce color) and someone with an older method which dated from 1903. Those
developers sued him (the father). He won in court, The plaintiffs appealed to
the House of Lords, which in 1916 reversed the decision of the court. And then
three years later the House of Lords reversed itself and said that, no, the new
method was not infringing the patent, after all. Brrr.
The two methods were similar in one respect. Both of them ran the camera at a
faster rate than the usual, and they used alternate frames in order to produce
the color effect. The older method also used a rotating disk in front of the
camera with red and green filters on the disk and then a special projector was
needed which also had a similar rotating red-green filter synchronized with the
film. The newer procedures were similar but seem to have been superior, in that
the newer procedure apparently did not require the special projector but instead
embedded color in the required alternating pattern into the film.
Very much reading between the lines, what may very well have been the unspoken
background of the seesawing patent battle was whether the first inventor had
captured the "concept" of color cinema photography, or not. But my
rather superficial research did not actually uncover anything about such fine
points of the law, only that there was a quite serious dispute.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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