The first part of the film shows an actuality street scene of traffic in the Strand. Behind the traffic we can see the entrance to the Gaiety Theatre on the Strand, advertising its latest show 'My Girl'. The second part is a different film altogether, spliced onto the first and is R W Paul’s Turn Out of a Fire Brigade filmed in November 1896 in Newcastle at the Westgate Road fire station. The film date is 1896.
Direction
R.W. Paul basically invented the action sequence.
Production
Two random films spliced together — silent era double feature!
Director
Robert W. Paul
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
R.W. Paul built Britain's first film studio in 1896 and was so bitter about Edison's patents that he became a pioneer out of spite.
This 'film' is actually two separate actualities Frankensteined together — a common distribution practice that accidentally predicted our TikTok attention spans.
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