Peter Domankiewicz

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Peter Domankiewicz

Peter Domankiewicz

@Domankiewicz

Film Director. Writer. #DMU #M4C PhD researcher into Friese-Greene & early film. Hair Twiddler. Expect random blurts, Hispanophilia & Brexiphobia.

United Kingdom انضم Şubat 2013
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Peter Domankiewicz
Peter Domankiewicz@Domankiewicz·
It's a "pinch me" moment. "Finding Birt Acres" is my collaboration with two film historians (whose work I study for my PhD research!) about the first commercial filmmaker in Britain. What began as a transglobal lockdown conversation is now a physical reality from @UExeterPress!
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At this moment I am in Pordenone, Italy, for a couple of days of the @PordenoneSilent film festival where the book I co-authored was being presented to its film geeky target audience for the first time. It was a lovely moment and led to many interesting conversations.
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History Girl@HistoryGirlBW·
Spectacular pre-WWII footage, over 100 years old. A plane drops a smoke curtain to hide a navy warship in the 1920s. Using liquid titanium tetrachloride, which reacts with the ocean air, forming white titanium dioxide clouds.
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A prediction from 70 years ago.
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@RealPreCinema I would add that 'The Magic Box' muddles the single-lens 'Machine Camera' which he had from 26 September 1889 and a stereoscopic camera he used in 1890. He did say the first subject he shot was at Hyde Park Corner, thus not in the park. He often used the park for tests though.
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Peter Domankiewicz@Domankiewicz·
@RealPreCinema To be clear, I did not say “In 1889 he used a camera to take a short section of film ....”. This is a quote from a BBC article not from me. The original version of the article was so bizarrely inaccurate I complained and they made some improvements.
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Domankiewicz states, “In 1889 he used a camera to take a short section of film in London's Hyde Park, projecting the results later at his home.” This alone puts WFG rightfully in the mix of the great pioneers of pre cinema. Two images below, from scenes in ‘The Magic Box’ (1951).
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Below p220 of Julius Pfragner’s ‘The Eye of History.’ In response to Pfragner, Domankiewicz says; “William Friese-Greene did not patent celluloid in 1889 and did not project anywhere publicly in 1890.”

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Peter Domankiewicz@Domankiewicz·
Wonderful to see our book "Finding Birt Acres" on the front page of the @UExeterPress and amongst their bestsellers! Contact me for discount code.
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Peter Domankiewicz@Domankiewicz·
In recognition of the 80th anniversary of VE Day, here are my father's personal recollections of the arrival of peace, when he was right in the midst of war-ravaged Europe.
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Peter Domankiewicz@Domankiewicz·
@RealPreCinema I'm not sure who that is, but it's definitely not J A R Rudge. That device is known as the Biophantic Lantern, which is what his nephew Edgar, who worked with him, said it was called. He never called any device simply "Phanta(o)scope".
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@RealPreCinema Dammit, I was sure it was a documentary and those were freakishly large goldfish. Another illusion ruined. 😂
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VISITE SOUS-MARINE DU MAINE (1898) American Mutoscope and a Star-Film Company collaboration. Apparently filmed at Havana Habour where the Maine sank, even though it’s not underwater photography. Obviously shot through an aquarium, using mannequins for bodies. Runs :42
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