Frank Mottershaw

Frank Mottershaw (film pioneer).

Frank Mottershaw (1850–1932) also known as Frank Stone Mottershaw was an early English cinema director based in Sheffield, Yorkshire. His films, A Daring Daylight Burglary[1] and The Robbery of the Mail Coach[2] (featuring a protagonist based on Jack Sheppard, the infamous 18th-century English highwayman), made in April and September 1903, are regarded as highly influential on the development of Edwin Porter’s paradigmatic "chase film" The Great Train Robbery, of December 1903, and often claimed as the prototype of the action film.[3] The uniqueness of Mottershaw's A Daring Daylight Burglary is seen as the way it tracks a single action through changing locations.[3] Henry Jasper Redfern and Mottershaw made the first motion pictures filmed outdoors in Sheffield. In 1900, Mottershaw formed the Sheffield Photo Company and by 1905 was one of the leading film companies in the country.[4][5]

Mottershaw also made documentary films, an early example being The Coronation of King Peter I of Serbia in Belgrade, made in 1904, with Arnold Muir Wilson.

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/443089/index.html
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1056120
  3. 1 2 http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/445817/index.html
  4. ↑ Mellor, G. J. (1971). Picture Pioneers: The Story of the Northern Cinema. 1896-1971. Graham Books.
  5. ↑ Abel, Richard. (2005). Encyclopedia of early cinema. Taylor & Francis.
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