| Title: | 'Our Navy' : Alfred John West FRGS - film pioneer |
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| Description: | This is a website about Alfred John West (1857-1937), who was a film pioneer, active from 1897 to 1913, and an award-winning marine photographer from the mid 1880s to 1900. West's films were of nautical and naval subjects, and were presented under the general title of 'Our Navy'. The website provides information about his life, work and exhibitions. The site contains his unpublished autobiography 'Sea Salts and Celluloid'. It also includes some clips of moving pictures curated by the Sound and Vision Archive at Hampshire County Council, Winchester and other material held at the Barnes Collection at Hove Museum, East Sussex. |
| Keywords - controlled: | photographers; photographs; filmmakers; filmmaking; moving images; motion pictures (visual works); film (performing arts); directors (performing arts); West, Alfred John, 1857-1937; |
| Keywords - uncontrolled: | yachting; Horatio Nelson; Victory; Turbinia; early movies; early cinema; moving pictures; film-makers; film makers; film pioneers; cinema pioneers; marine photographers |
| Type: | Biographical material |
| URL: | http://www.ournavy.org.uk/ |
| Classification: |
Communication and media studies > Film studies > Film history > Early and silent film Creative and performing arts > Visual arts > Photography > Maritime photography Humanities > History > Cultural history Humanities > History > Maritime / naval history |
| Resource creator: | Clover, David (Author), Open University |
| Country of origin: | United Kingdom |
| Period: | 19th Century; 20th Century (1900 - 1945) |
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