Satellite operator SES (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) has appointed Niclas
Friese-Greene as senior vice president of Marketing and Corporate Communications, the company said today.
But such questions produce answers which breathe new life into
Friese-Greene's 80-year-old film.
TV historian Dan Cruickshank will look at
Friese-Greene's work in Cardiff tonight - uncovering some remarkable stories.
M&K's turn of the century film was glorious enough, but
Friese-Greene's fascinating record of his 1924 journey from Land's End to John o'Groats was shot in COLOUR (keep watching, because he stopped off in Liverpool).
Victor
Friese-Greene, the Cambridge-educated president of the North American division of Toshiba Software, converts the library to video and pores over it, late at night, on his home computer.
Among these was the hapless British inventor, William
Friese-Greene. Hoping to get a job working in Edison's lab,
Friese-Greene sent Edison news of his invention, which film historian Kevin Brownlow and others now contend was the first motion picture camera.
William
Friese-Greene creates the first cinematic camera.
The drama told the story of William
Friese-Greene, who designed the first working cinematic camera.
The pictures are mainly excerpts from filmmaker Claude
Friese-Greene's The Open Road - originally filmed in 1925-26 and now re-edited and digitally restored by the BFI National Archive.
At a time when cinemas were still showing films in black and white, the enterprising and aptly-named Claude
Friese-Greene invented a revolutionary colour process.
What could be described as the original British road movie, it features the work of pioneering film maker Claude
Friese-Greene.
In 1924 pioneering film-maker Claude
Friese-Greene made a movie as he drove from Land's End to John O'Groats.