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A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.
Hyde Park Corner (also known as Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses) depicts life at Hyde Park Corner in London. It is claimed to be the first film set in London, as well as the first to be filmed on celluloid. It is currently considered a partially lost film, with only 6 possible film frames preserved as part of the Jonathan Silent Film Collection.
Knights Bridge, London, Looking East Towards Hyde Park Corner, early color film.
Who made the film (and exactly why) is obscure: a transport employee would seem the most likely bet. Whoever it was has left us with some captivating images of the tube as our grandparents knew it. London Underground users know only too well that their city has since paid the price for having once led the world in underground transport. Unsurprisingly, the infrastructure in this film will look familiar to modern Londoners - it's the passengers who have changed: their dress, their body language, their racial mix, their sheer numbers. This artless series of unedited shots of people moving from A to B has taken on a strange, involuntary poetry over the decades. Is this how CCTV will look to our grandchildren?
The journey of a gay African refugee seeking asylum in Germany.
Thousands of homosexual were persecuted, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazi regime. The Gay Holocast Memorial, in Berlin, intends to honor the victims of persecution and murder, to keep alive the memory of this Injustice.