Rough Sea at Dover
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67% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Documentary, Short | 5.2/10 IMDb 4.8/10 Letterboxd Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Birt AcresRobert W. Paul Release date 14 January 1896 (1896-01-14) Genres Silent film, Documentary, Short Film, Indie film Similar movies Robert W Paul directed Rough Sea at Dover and Come Along - Do! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
rough sea at dover 1895 with new soundtrack from henrietta barnett school
Rough Sea at Dover (also known as Rough Seas at Dover, The Beach at Dover and Sea Waves at Dover) is an 1895 British short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Birt Acres and Robert W. Paul.
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- rough sea at dover 1895 with new soundtrack from henrietta barnett school
- Rough sea at dover 1896
- Content
- Current status
- References
Paul and Acres shot the film in mid-1895, originally with the intention of showing it via kinetoscope. Projected, the film premiered on 14 January 1896 at the Royal Photographic Society in Hanover Street, London. 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. Following its successful screening in London the film was taken to the United States where it was shown on 23 April 1896 at Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York City with a series of American movies made by the Edison's company.
Despite its simple nature, Rough Sea at Dover became one of the most popular and widely screened early British films.
Rough sea at dover 1896
Content
The film consists of two distinct shots of different locations which have been edited together. It is not possible to tell with certainty whether these were edited together in the original release version. The first shot is of the rough sea as heavy waves crash against Admiralty Pier in Dover. The second shot is from a different location along a riverbank showing a view of fast-flowing water. It has been speculated that this second half of the footage has been taken from Niagara Falls No. 1: The Upper River Just Above The Falls a film made by Acres late in 1895.
Current status
Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet. It has also featured in a number of film collections including The Movies Begin - A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894-1913.
References
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