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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

We’re really excited about this project. Please do give this a follow if you’re interested in silent films and #WutheringHeights

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We’ve just given a short talk at the #BritishSilentFilmFestival Symposium which was held at the gloriously eccentric Cinema Museum in London. The building was once the workhouse to which #CharlieChaplin was sent and is now a temple to the silver screen.

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-si... We’ll be talking about Louis Le Prince’s 1-lens motion picture camera (and our attempts to build a working replica) at the British Silent Film Festival Symposium in June. Watch this space!

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British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2026

A range of papers showcasing the latest research on UK film culture before 1930 at the British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2026!

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We will be bringing you news of our latest project - building a working replica of Louis Le Prince’s 1888 motion picture camera - soon! Watch this space.

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Thank you to everyone who came to the Frame:Four exhibition. We’re following this up in the next few days with news of a film-research archive opening in Leeds. Watch this space.

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

A fascinating day of talks and films on Palestinian film organised by the Leeds Palestinian Film Festival and held at the iconic Hyde Park Picture House this month: hpph.co.uk/films/milita...

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Militant Palestinian Cinema… In a Day

An opportunity to take a deep dive into the history of militant cinema in Palestine with screenings, talks and discussions hosted by Saeed Taji Farouky.

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Our new exhibition, Frame:Four - Lost and Imagined Films, is underway at Leeds Beckett University! A free downloadable booklet will be available soon.

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Our next exhibition will be on lost and imagined films. Please watch this space for more information…..

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

An exciting new project about motion picture pioneer, Louis Le Prince, is underway. Stay in touch to find out more!

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Well Frame : Two has come to an end. We’re already planning our next project, so watch this space!

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Lisa the Leftist @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Ingenious 😂 FFS

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Our Frame:Two 'Animation and Early Cinema' booklet is free to download. Find it here: www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/research/lar...

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FRAME : TWO | Leeds Beckett University

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

We were honoured to include mention of Palestine’s Almasna (The Animation Factory) in our talk on #rotoscoping on May 6th. Please do find out more about this wonderful studio almasna.me

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Our Frame : Two exhibition kicked off with a talk and screening on May 6th. It culminated in the screening of a restored version of Betty Boop in Minnie the Moocher! Wonderful afternoon and sublime cartoon to end with.

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Thank you to everyone who helped and/or attended our opening talks and screening today. The Frame:Two ‘Animation and Early Cinema’ exhibition is officially open!

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/research/lar... Our Frame : Two exhibition with begin in May 6th at the Platform Gallery Leeds. Animation and Early Cinema is the theme, and there’ll be a free screening and talks at the venue. Watch this space for more info.

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Early Cinema Research Group | Leeds Arts Research Centre | Leeds Beckett University

Established in 2024 in the Leeds School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University, the Early Cinema Research Group encourages and facilitates research into all form of visual media focusing on the early and...

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Cslmn @rapsacnomlas.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Here is the full text of an open letter signed by 50+ film journalists and counting to @variety.com following their publication of an article blaming Rachel Zegler's pro-Palestine political activism for the box office results of a Disney film.

We, the undersigned, wish to express our strong condemnation of the Variety article “Inside Disney’s ‘Snow White’ Fiasco: Death Threats, Beefed-Up Security and a Social Media Guru for Rachel Zegler”.

As film journalists and steadfast supporters of the Palestinian cause, we are shocked by this attack on Rachel Zegler and her activism, masquerading as a piece of insider news, in what is considered our industry’s leading trade magazine. Blaming a box office failure on a young actor’s messages of solidarity with Palestine is particularly objectionable when Israel has drastically resumed its attacks on Gaza. This week, Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning No Other Land, was seriously injured in an attack by Israeli settlers and detained by Israeli forces. Also this week, our press colleagues Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour were killed in Israeli airstrikes, taking the number of journalists killed to over 170. Our industry should have more urgent lines of enquiry than bullying an actor at this time.

Coming after the same publication’s hit-piece on the actor Melissa Barrera for similar reasons, this article adds to a dismaying suspicion that Variety is editorially partisan to Israel. Amnesty International has found that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza strip.

Free Palestine.

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Fleischer Cartoons! @fleischertoons.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

MoMI is partnering with us to present four restored Fleischer Studios cartoons in our Jane Henson Amphitheater. You can see Ko-Ko the Clown, Popeye, Superman, and Betty Boop—in the restoration premiere of “Judge for a Day”—at MoMI through Apr. 20!📽️ @movingimagenyc.bsky.social

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Thank you @satmornpod.bsky.social Celebrating our 100th follower with a picture of chihuahuas, of course. Hello from Tove and Kookie!

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

There is so much more of this story to tell. Watch this space as we prepare to celebrate Louis Le Prince and his wonderful motion picture camera of 1888.

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Fleischer Cartoons! @fleischertoons.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Help us raise funds for more cartoon scans by checking out our threads posts www.threads.net/@fleischerto...

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Fleischer Cartoons (@fleischertoons) on Threads

🌴Hula Girl🌴 FleischerStudios

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Going through the Herbert Archive, we realised what a big Popeye fan Stephen Herbert was. Here’s how to make your very own Popeye doll! @fleischertoons.bsky.social 1/3

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Fleischer Cartoons! @fleischertoons.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

🖤We are restocking the definitive book on all things Fleischer Studios!🖤 Pick up your copy here: www.rockinpins.com/product/the-...

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

We’ve come across this in the archive. Only info is ‘Demeny 1898’ We’re assuming Georges Demeny and would love to know if anyone has any clues as to what this might be.

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We’ll be announcing our next exhibition, FRAME:TWO, shortly. If you’re interested in animation, it might just be your thing.

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Were Emile Reynaud’s Pantomimes Lumineuses the world’s first cinema shows? Our Frame:Two exhibition in May will be leading an animation revolution! Watch this space for more news.

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Fleischer Cartoons! @fleischertoons.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

🌟Less than 50 sets left on these limited edition ‘Poor Cinderella’ enamel pins! Only 100 were made!🌟 www.rockinpins.com/product/bett...

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Were Emile Reynaud’s Pantomimes Lumineuses the world’s first cinema shows? Our Frame:Two exhibition in May will be leading an animation revolution! Watch this space for more news.

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We’ll be announcing our next exhibition, FRAME:TWO, shortly. If you’re interested in animation, it might just be your thing.

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We have what appears to be an unproduced script by Danish director, Henning Carlsen (‘A Dream Comes True’). Don’t suppose anyone has heard about this project? Would love to hear from anyone who has a bit more background info on this.

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

‘The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.’ Orson Welles.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 30/12/2024

Looking ahead, many resources are entering the Public Domain in 2025, like our sailor friend Popeye, The Sound and the Fury and more. The Internet Archive is ready to provide access to these items for free use and enjoyment. Help us maintain access: archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eo…

First appearance of the character "Popeye" in the Thimble Theater comic strip.

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

This is beautiful, innovative and wildly imaginative. Fleischer Studios also patented the wonderful rotoscope technique (used more recently by Richard Linklater). We’re going to be celebrating Fleischer Studios in 2025, too!

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The booklet accompanying our Frame:One exhibition will be out in the new year. Very much looking forward to telling you more about our exhibits!

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Another photo of yesterday’s installation of the Frame : One exhibition at White Column in Leeds.

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Well, the exhibition is up and running. Here’s a quick photo from yesterday’s installation. We’re really proud of this project and will be putting up more information about it shortly!

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The graphics for our exhibition are coming along nicely. Even if you can't visit in person - we'll put up information on our Frame:One exhibition for people to look at here. Please do keep watching to see what we're up to!

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Another poster for our upcoming exhibition!

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

We have a webpage for our Frame:One exhibition at the fabulous White Column Gallery in Leeds. Please do have a look! whitecolumn.art

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

From Popeye to FW Murnau, the work of the ECRG will have something for everyone. And if you're in Leeds in December/January, take a look at our pop-up window gallery on Woodhouse Lane. Watch this space for more info!

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

There is so much more of this story to tell. Watch this space as we prepare to celebrate Louis Le Prince and his wonderful motion picture camera of 1888.

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Charles Tepperman @tepperman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The conference is over, but check out the incredible Year of Amateur Cinema web resources put on by the Filmoteca de Catalunya: cultura.gencat.cat/ca/temes/com... including streaming copies of dozens of amazing films: cultura.gencat.cat/ca/temes/com...

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Some prints of Etienne-Jules Marey’s motion analysis sequences from Marey’s original negatives. Printed by Lucien Bull and now in our archive. We can’t wait to tell you more about what we have and what we’re going to do with it all.

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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 14/11/2024

Can't wait for this!

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

What links Eadweard Muybridge to Richard Linklater? And Popeye?! Please do watch this space (a much kinder space than you know where) to find out.

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Early Cinema Research Group, Leeds @ecrg.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Our first post! Announcing 'Frame One', a pop-up exhibition at Leeds Beckett University in December '24. Watch this space for more information.

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