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Bandits!, or, The collapsing bridge : an early film and a late-Victorian stage / by David Mayer with Bryony Dixon ; forward by Neville Hunnings.
LIBRA PN2087.G7 M39 2015 1 v. + CD-ROM
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mayer, David, author.
- Dixon, Bryony, author.
- Series:
- Society for Theatre Research annual publications.
- Society for Theatre Research annual publications
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theaters--Special effects--History--20th century.
- Theaters.
- Theater--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Theater.
- Equestrian drama.
- History.
- Silent films.
- Theaters--Special effects.
- Great Britain.
- Silent films--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Theaters--England--London--History--20th century.
- Bandits (Motion picture : 1902).
- Equestrian drama--England--20th century--History and criticism.
- England.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 84 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in).
- 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Bandits!
- Collapsing bridge
- Place of Publication:
- London : Society for Theatre Research, 2015.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "Centres on the earliest surviving motion picture filmed in a British theatre. Brief but amazingly eventful, it records the conclusion of 'The Bandits,' a London Hippodrome sketch performed in 1902: soldiers give chase on horseback; a bandit queen fires a pistol; a mill explodes into flame; a bridge collapses in the millrush; a carriage and horses plunge into the millpond. All this -- and more -- can be seen in 89 seconds! The filmclip was made early in a decade of melodramatic sketches that were given sensational presentation at the London Hippodrome between 1900 and 1909. The Hippodrome was then a major London variety theatre, and sketches like 'The Bandits' were literally showstoppers, designed to bring the twice-daily bill to a spectacular conclusion as scenery collapsed, water cascaded, and animals cavorted. ... This amply illustrated booklet offers an authoritative account of the Hippodrome sketches with their spectacular effects and stage machinery. It also presents a lightly edited performance text of The Sands o' Dee, the only Hippodrome sketch for which a script is known to survive"--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Neville Hunnings
- The mystery of the collapsing bridge / Bryony Dixon
- Bandits! or, The collapsing bridge : an early film and a late-Victorian stage / David Mayer
- Sands o' Dee playtext.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 940557323
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