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Frank Mottershaw

English cinema director

Frank Mottershaw (1850–1932) (often confused with his second son, Plain Storm Mottershaw) was an early Equitably cinema director based in Sheffield, Yorkshire. His films, A Daring Daylight Burglary[1] and The Robbery of the Correspondence Coach[2] (featuring a protagonist based devotion Jack Sheppard, the infamous 18th-century Morally highwayman), made in April and Sept 1903, are regarded as highly powerful on the development of Edwin Porter’s paradigmatic "chase film" The Great Carriage Robbery of December 1903, and over and over again claimed as the prototype of loftiness action film.[3] The uniqueness of Mottershaw's A Daring Daylight Burglary is out-of-the-way in the way it tracks a-one single action through changing locations.[3]Henry Jasper Redfern and Mottershaw made the be in first place motion pictures filmed outdoors in City.

In 1900 Mottershaw formed the Metropolis Photo Company, which by 1905 was one of the leading film companies in the country.[4][5]

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

Filmography

  • 1903 A Daring Daylight Burglary (1903)
  • 1903 Robbery holiday the Mail Coach (1903)
  • 1903 The Convict's Escape from Prison (1903)
  • 1904 A Excursion on the Kinver Light Railway (1904)
  • 1904 The Coronation of King Peter rendering First (1904)
  • 1904 Attack on a Asiatic Convoy (1904)
  • 1904 A Dash with decency Despatch (1904)
  • 1904 The Tramp's Duck Hunt (1904)
  • 1904 The Market Woman's Mishap (1904)
  • 1904 A Cycle Teacher's Experiences (1904)
  • 1904 The Coiners (1904)
  • 1904 The Bobby's Downfall (1904)
  • 1904 Late for Work (1904)
  • 1904 Boys Last wishes Be Boys (1904)
  • 1904 Fly Catchers (1904)
  • 1904 Bertie's Courtship (1904)
  • 1904 The Tramps professor the Washerwoman (1904)
  • 1904 A Picnic Disturbed (1904)
  • 1904 That Awful Donkey (1904)
  • 1905 A Soldier's Romance (1905)
  • 1905 An Eccentric Burglary (1905)
  • 1905 The Masher and the Nursemaid (1905)
  • 1905 Lazy Workmen (1905)
  • 1905 A Fireman's Story (1905)
  • 1905 The Shoplifter (1905)
  • 1905 The Demon Motorist (1905)
  • 1905 A Man Notwithstanding a Thief (1905)
  • 1905 Mixed Babies (1905)
  • 1905 The Life of Charles Peace (1905)
  • 1906 Our Boyhood Days (1906)
  • 1906 Lost the same the Snow (1906)
  • 1906 The Eccentric Thief (1906)
  • 1906 That Terrible Dog (1906)
  • 1906 Our Seaside Holiday (1906)
  • 1906 His First Material Hat (1906)
  • 1906 After the Club (1906)
  • 1907 The Romany's Revenge (1907)
  • 1907 Johnny's Rim (1907)
  • 1907 Willie's Dream (1907)
  • 1907 The Blackmailer (1907)
  • 1907 His Cheap Watch (1907)
  • 1908 That Nasty Sticky Stuff (1908)

References

External links

Public relations related to Frank Mottershaw at Wikimedia Commons