The Optilogue

Book Review – Pictures of Poverty: the Works of George R. Sims and Their Screen AdaptationsJuly 22, 2022
Lydia Jakobs, Pictures of Poverty: The Works of George R. Sims and Their Screen AdaptationsKINtop Studies in Early Cinema – vol. 7John Libbey Publishing Ltd, Herts, UK, 2021Paperback: ISBN 0-86196-752-0, £31.00 (US$39.00)276 pages, 57 black & white and colour illustrations Reviewed by Richard Crangle At a time when social inequality is back in all itsContinue reading “Book Review – Pictures of Poverty: the Works of George R. Sims and Their Screen Adaptations”
Dissolving Views and Slow Movies. Friese-Greene: Close-Up, Part 8July 7, 2022
‘Midway between photography and cinema’ In this post I suggest that after his failed experiment with the King’s Road test in 1893, William Friese-Greene gave up on the idea of a camera that would take 10 or more pictures per second, regularly spaced on perforated film, and the projection onto a screen at that rateContinue reading “Dissolving Views and Slow Movies. Friese-Greene: Close-Up, Part 8”

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