Rough Sea at Dover
Overview
United Kingdom
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short
Short subject
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black-and-white
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silent
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documentary
Documentary film
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film directed and produced by Birt Acres
Birt Acres
Birt Acres was a photographer and film pioneer.Born in Richmond, Virginia to English parents, he invented the first British 35 mm moving picture camera, the first daylight loading home movie camera and projector, Birtac, was the first travelling newsreel reporter in international film history and...
and Robert W. Paul
Robert W. Paul
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The film premiered on January 14, 1896 at the Royal Photographic Society
Royal Photographic Society
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in Hanover Street, London
London
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. This was the first public screening of a film in Britain and followed a month after the first such screening by the Lumière Brothers in Paris
Paris
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. Following its successful screening in London the film was taken to the United States
United States
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where it was shown on April 23, 1896 at Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York
New York
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with a series of American movies made by the Edison's company
Thomas Edison
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Despite its simple nature, Rough Sea at Dover became one of the most popular and widely-screened early British films.
The film consists of two distinct shots of different locations which have been edited together.
Quotations
A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example, show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, "plate," or "shrimp," or "plate o' shrimp" out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.
The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.
It's a beautiful night... You can almost see the stars.
Sy Richardson - Lite, Repo man
Tom Finnegan - Oly, Repo man