AN EARLY "MOVIE" CRITIC
Sir,-Possibly your film critic "G.M." may be interested to read what must be one of the earliest criticisms of the Movies extant. It was written by Jonathan Swift, D.D., in one of his voluminous letters to his friend Mrs. Johnson ("Stella"), London March 22, 1713. "I went afterwards to see a famous moving picture, and I. never saw anything so pretty. You see a sea 10 inches wide, a town at the other end, and ships sailing in the sea and discharging their cannon. You see a great sky, with moon and stars, etc. I am a fool. Night, dear M. D. " Several pictures were exhibited about this time, on a similar principle. One with "many curious and wonderfully pleasing and surprising motions in it, all natural" is advertised to be seen at the "Grecian’s Head" Coffee House. There are in Bagford’s collection in the British Museum several curious original handbills, minutely describing exhibitions of this nature.
G.
F.
(King Country).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 264, 14 July 1944, Page 7
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165AN EARLY "MOVIE" CRITIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 264, 14 July 1944, Page 7
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