Dec 17 2024 65 mins 1
Vanessa Toulmin, Chair in Early Film and Popular Entertainment at the University of Sheffield, is an expert on variety theater, circus, travelling exhibitions, fairgrounds, and other aspects of the history of show business. She brings this expertise to her five picks from 1902, ranging from her vast experience with the Mitchell & Kenyon films to an intriguing connection between A Trip to the Moon and an early amusement park ride.
Vanessa has published 11 books including Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell and Kenyon and four books on Blackpool's entertainment heritage and was the curator of the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection for the BFI and the Crazy Cinematograph project for the City of Luxembourg. She is Chair of the Morecambe Winter Gardens Preservation Trust, an independent charity which is currently restoring that unique entertainment complex in northwest England.
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Films and resources mentioned:
Vanessa has published 11 books including Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell and Kenyon and four books on Blackpool's entertainment heritage and was the curator of the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection for the BFI and the Crazy Cinematograph project for the City of Luxembourg. She is Chair of the Morecambe Winter Gardens Preservation Trust, an independent charity which is currently restoring that unique entertainment complex in northwest England.
Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1902!
Films and resources mentioned:
- Hull Fair (1902) - Mitchell & Kenyon
- Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs (1902) - Alice Guy-Blaché
- The Six Sisters Dainef (1902) - unknown
- How to Stop a Motor Car (1902) - Cecil Hepworth
- A Trip to the Moon (1902) - Georges Méliès
- Freaks (1932) - Tod Browning
- Sandow (1894) - William K.L. Dickson
- Carmencita (1894) - William K.L. Dickson
- The Dancing Pig (1907) - unknown
- The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901) - Robert W. Paul
- Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902) - Edwin S. Porter
- Explosion of a Motor Car (1900) - Cecil Hepworth
- The Life of Charles Peace (1905) - William Haggar
- The '?' Motorist (1906) - Walter R. Booth
- The Automatic Motorist (1911) - Walter R. Booth
- Liverpool Street Scenes (1901) - Mitchell & Kenyon
- Kiri-Kis (1907) - Segundo de Chomón
- The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film - Vanessa Toulmin, Simon Popple, Patrick Russel, eds.
- Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès's Trip to the Moon - Matthew Solomon, ed.
