Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:BBC Bristol Productions
Paul Mertons Weird and Wonderful World of Early Cinema on the Web:Official Website
Paul Mertons Weird and Wonderful World of Early Cinema
Audience Score
59 minDocumentary
Paul Merton goes in search of the origins of screen comedy in the forgotten world of silent cinema not in Hollywood but closer to home in pre1914 Britain and France Revealing the unknown stars and lost masterpieces he brings to life the pioneering techniques and optical inventiveness of the virtuosos who mastered a new art form With a playful eye and comic sense of timing Merton combines the role of presenter and director to recreate the weird and wonderful world that is early European cinema in a series of cinematic experiments of his own
