Theodore Brown, and the Little Green Man of the Sea

The picture above is from a 1920s book written and (as we shall see) drawn and published by the English inventor, editor and artist Theodore Brown. The technique of ‘changing and moving pictures’ using red-and-green printing and gelatine filters had appeared years earlier, in Brown’s pocket-money novelty the Pocket Kinematograph. DISCLAIMER: One of the images

Colour, and the Courts. William Friese-Greene: Close-Up, Part 10

X-Rays: the New Photography William Friese-Greene was always ready to latch onto anything new. This applied to Röntgen Rays, the amazing development in photography better known now as X-Rays. In 1896 he obtained an X-Ray kit, and was booked to give theatrical demonstrations. He delegated most of those, and his dabbling in the emerging scientific