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F. Percy Smith
Frank Percy Smith (12 January 1880–24 March 1945) was a British naturalist and early nature documentary pioneer, who explored time-lapse photography, microphotography, microcinematography, underwater cinematography and animation. Biography Percy Smith was the son of Francis David Smith (1854-1918) and Ada Blaker (born 1856). An only child, Smith was working as a clerk for the British Board of Education by age 14. The job was uninteresting but sustained his interests in photography and microscopy. In 1899, at age 19, he joined the Quekett Microscopical Club, within five years becoming editor of their journal (1904 to 1910). He made many research contributions of his own, primarily on spiders, his speciality. To supplement his income, Smith sold slides and gave natural history talks, accompanied by magic lantern displays of his own painted graphics. In 1907 he married Kate Louise Ustonson (1881-1959) who, along with Phyllis Bolté, would assist in his film-making. His close-u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fight For The Dardanelles
''Fight for the Dardanelles'' (1915) is a British silent documentary film, directed by F. Percy Smith and produced and edited by Charles Urban. Percy Smith was known as a recorder of nature. He was a pioneer in the field of scientific documentaries. During World War I, however, he used his talents to support the Allied war effort. He shot aerial views of battlefields for British forces and made several animated films. One such was ''Fight for the Dardanelles''. The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current military situation in the Dardanelles, using various maps to assist understanding. Small cardboard cut-outs show the deployment of men and ships. Intertitles explain tactics, and shelling explosions are illustrated by clouds of cotton wool. The techniques used in the film are considered primitive today; however, they satisfied a need at the time for details of the war. The film is currently available in 16mm film 16 mm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Ott
Christine Ott (born 10 August 1963) is a French pianist, vocalist, ondist, and composer. She was a member of Yann Tiersen's band for eight years and played in classical orchestras for ten. She has collaborated with Tindersticks, Syd Matters, and Jean-Philippe Goude. Ott has released four solo albums: '' Solitude Nomade'' in 2009, '' Only Silence Remains'' in 2016, '' Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot)'' in 2020 and '' Time to Die'' in 2021. She also composed the soundtrack for F. W. Murnau's ''Tabu'' in 2016. She has created several live soundtracks shows, including for Lotte Reiniger's movies and Robert J. Flaherty's ''Nanook of the North''. Ott formed the duo Snowdrops with Mathieu Gabry in 2015. Together, they composed the original score for ''Manta Ray'', by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, and in 2020, they released the album ''Volutes'', on Injazero Records. ''The Guardian'' selected the release among its ten best contemporary discs of 2020, writing, "what's remarkable is how ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tindersticks
Tindersticks are an English alternative rock band formed in Nottingham in 1991. They released six albums before singer Stuart A. Staples embarked on a solo career. The band reunited briefly in 2006 and more permanently the following year. The band recorded several film soundtracks, and have a long-standing collaboration with French director Claire Denis. History Staples, Boulter, Fraser, Macauley and Hinchliffe, all former members of Asphalt Ribbons, formed the band in 1991. The final line-up for the ''Old Horse'' mini-LP (1991) was: Stuart Staples (vocals), Dave Boulter (organ and accordion), Neil Fraser (guitar), Dickon Hinchliffe (guitar and strings), Al Macauley (percussion and drums), and John Thompson (bass). Mark Colwill was recruited when Thompson left the Asphalt Ribbons, but it is not known if he played any gigs under the Asphalt Ribbons name. They then changed their name to Tindersticks after Staples discovered a box of German matches on a Greek beach. Tindersticks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart A
Stuart may refer to: People *Stuart (name), a given name and surname (and list of people with the name) * Clan Stuart of Bute, a Scottish clan * House of Stuart, a royal house of Scotland and England Places Australia Generally * Stuart Highway, connecting South Australia and the Northern Territory Northern Territory *Stuart, the former name for Alice Springs (changed 1933) * Stuart Park, an inner city suburb of Darwin * Central Mount Stuart, a mountain peak Queensland * Stuart, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Mount Stuart, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Mount Stuart (Queensland), a mountain South Australia * Stuart, South Australia, a locality in the Mid Murray Council *Electoral district of Stuart, a state electoral district * Hundred of Stuart, a cadastral unit Canada * Stuart Channel, a strait in the Gulf of Georgia region of British Columbia United Kingdom * Castle Stuart United States *Stuart, Florida * Stuart, Iowa * Stuart, Nebraska * Stuart, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, distribution, and education. It is sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and partially funded under the British Film Institute Act 1949. Activities Purpose The BFI was established in 1933 to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and the moving image generally, and their impact on society, to promote access to and appreciation of the widest possible range of British and world cinema and to establish, care for and develop collections reflecting the moving image history, heritage and culture of the United Kingdom. Archive The BFI maintain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Hamilton James
Charlie Hamilton James (born July 1973) is an English photographer, television cameraman and presenter, specialising in wildlife subjects. He started his career at 16, working on David Attenborough's '' The Trials of Life''. His work has since been commissioned by National Geographic Magazine, the BBC's Springwatch/Autumnwatch shows and The Natural World. His first film made when he was just 26, was ''My Halcyon River''. Following its success, in 2001 he set up a production company, Halcyon Media, which specialises in wildlife productions. In 2007 he produced ''An Otter in the Family'', a short documentary series about the adoption of an otter cub called Grace and his attempts to raise her as a wild animal to be released into the wild. He also produced the four-part ''Halcyon River Diaries'', the first episode of which was broadcast on 16 May 2010 on BBC One. The series follows the wildlife found near his home. An additional episode was shown at Christmas 2010. Charlie lives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancestry
An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear, is a parent or ( recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). ''Ancestor'' is "any person from whom one is descended. In law, the person from whom an estate has been inherited." Relationship Two individuals have a genetic relationship if one is the ancestor of the other or if they share a common ancestor. In evolutionary theory, species which share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common descent. However, this concept of ancestry does not apply to some bacteria and other organisms capable of horizontal gene transfer. Some research suggests that the average person has twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors. This might have been due to the past prevalence of polygynous relations and female hypergamy. Assuming that all of an individual's ancestors are otherwise unrelated to each other, that individual has 2'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Field (filmmaker)
Agnes Mary Field (24 February 1896 – 23 December 1968) was a British film producer and director, particularly associated with documentary, educational, and children's films. Early life and education Agnes Mary Field was born in Wimbledon, Surrey, on 24 February 1896, the second daughter of Evelyn Lucy Daniel and Ernest Field, a solicitor. She attended Surbiton High School and Bedford College, London. She earned a master of arts from the Institute of Historical Research with a distinction in Commonwealth history. Career Field joined British Instructional Films in 1926, as its education manager. She went on to work for the Gaumont Film Company. In 1928, she took over from F. Percy Smith and writing, directing, and editing the '' Secrets of Nature'' , a short black-and-white documentary film series, consisting of 144 films produced by British Instructional Films, with titles including "The Private Life of a Gull", "Plants of the Underworld", and "Mighty Atoms". She t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secrets Of Nature
''Secrets of Nature'' was a British short black-and-white documentary film series, consisting of 144 films produced between 1922 and 1933 by British Instructional Films, which filmmaker, historian and critic Paul Rotha described in 1930 as "the sheet anchor of the British film industry". A second series of films from the same team, under the title ''Secrets of Life'' and backed by Gaumont-British, followed between 1934 and 1947. History The ''Secrets of Nature'' series was initiated in 1922 by Harry Bruce Woolfe, a former film distributor who had established himself with successful dramatised documentaries of the First World War, such as ''Zeebrugge'' and ''Mons'', prior to setting up British Instructional Films in 1919 with the ambition of creating popular informational films. He recruited F. Percy Smith, who had established himself alongside fellow film pioneer F. Martin Duncan on the ''Urban Science'' series for Charles Urban before the war, to head up the series. Woolfe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
