Early & Silent Film

EARLY &
SILENT FILm

Ben Samuel

My film 'The Magic Lantern'

A celebration of the magic and wonder of early cinema.

Ben Samuel

Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981)

The films of pioneering filmmaker Lotte Reiniger

Ben Samuel

Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering work on locomotion

Eadweard Muybridge (1830 – 1904) pioneering work on locomotion included many male and female nudes of himself and others

Ben Samuel

An Impossible Balancing Feat (1902) Dir Georges Méliès

Wonderful trick film from Georges Méliès where he balances copies of himself on his head and hands.

Ben Samuel

Eadweard Muybridge photography

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) photography. Most famous for his studies in locomotion and it's influence on the invention of cinema

Ben Samuel

Etienne-Jules Marey inventor of chronophotography

Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) physiologist, doctor, biomechanics engineer and inventor of chronophotography.

Ben Samuel

Eadweard Muybridge 'The Horse in Motion'

In June 1878, Eadweard Muybridge created a sequential series of photographs with a battery of 12 cameras along the race track