CINEMA MAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1941, Page 6

CINEMA MAN

4 PIONEER WORK IN ENGL,AND. No one can say to whom wr owe the eincnia. The movies of. our time were given us by miinvkss. pwmws who have never received the fall reward of their pMiencv ;i;id skill But among them W’- may well "remember that remarkable mail, William Fnw e-Grcenc. son of a Bristol metal’.■..rkvr. Barn in IH'A. iu;- learned to take phmi<rapht; when a young man. and Mier ;. iwv.isg life wtiled down as .■ (o * •■-iu. v.'.u -’adm ;p PicBut Lu- f .eH, wx, ; t ..i wpiW! most in ■ • He , fer ever expermwnth;S i.;l3er;s!ory t." ChelS'Ca. mid all hr: th- aght.s wen* to find a method of making moving pictures. In RXSIS hr used for the j'ir-: t.-ne. a band of .wmssti'erl paper made trans-, parent by being dipped m eastor-oil; but sH'empts in produce satwOctiiry positives, for prujectnm. frant such ne[“.iUVes. were mi! siicccs.sfuL In June, lII® he kMlged a provisional applu'.'ttSi’O <•><" -■! intent, tile complete •>-p<;.‘cifir,.ttion 'if which was .;ec<-;.>!, <1 in may. l8i)0 The first film r.iece'.-fuhy ■ ■ anti {ir> jected r’h the new ar- ! was of a. scene at Hyde Park i " r< i- Getober WB9: it was firs: ted t Che ter wn hall ■ a. I s : ,rW • v'■ ■ . i nil I; .'err id’, ,‘i tile field. < , ■.. . N..v<-mbr: 1910 ;l; 'ini f ’!>e Mi.'i-iH Picture P.i'ct’.ts (' . S:. e-C; <■) r,r., paWI;! ;. the master k.n.-m:!- ' i.,'r:swh:c !;. ■.<•!.' nt the ■. erlti. He v- i; • a: mariv mure patents, and i.'.-ewnr a Wc-l-km wn (!;';»'** its !hv film ..Mm.try but h«- in financial d:rtwultie-s unli! the ri;d ->f ius day-. He dwd .■'.j.jdde'.'.lv .. Ir.-ele e,:-r.f<-r--er..-.- ,n «.h<- B. oltls Great Que-t'r: St rem; May ", 1931 Hr was buri<’d m 11 ■ chsrr; tr cemetery and his ■ - . . ■. ■. ■