Gemma
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Not really sure if this is the right place to post this or not or if it is even of any interest
In 1913, almost a hundred years before NASA landed the Curiosity rover on Mars, Wallett Waller directed A Message From Mars, Britain’s first sci-fi film . The British Film Institute has digitally restored the movie, with a new score by composer Matthew Herbert, Creative Director of the New Radiophonic Workshop. You can watch all 69 minutes of this landmark film on the BFI Player, the first time the movie has been available in full since it was shown in cinemas early last century.
Loosely based on Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, it stars silent-movie actor Charles Hawtrey (whose name the Carry On star would later take) as a Martian who travels to Earth to teach a selfish man the error of his ways.
Watch the fully restored film at http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-a-message-from-mars-1913/
I posted this on my own site and someone replied with some extra info...
In 1913, almost a hundred years before NASA landed the Curiosity rover on Mars, Wallett Waller directed A Message From Mars, Britain’s first sci-fi film . The British Film Institute has digitally restored the movie, with a new score by composer Matthew Herbert, Creative Director of the New Radiophonic Workshop. You can watch all 69 minutes of this landmark film on the BFI Player, the first time the movie has been available in full since it was shown in cinemas early last century.
Loosely based on Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, it stars silent-movie actor Charles Hawtrey (whose name the Carry On star would later take) as a Martian who travels to Earth to teach a selfish man the error of his ways.
Watch the fully restored film at http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-a-message-from-mars-1913/
I posted this on my own site and someone replied with some extra info...
I do believe this was a "remake" of a lost 1903 New Zealand film of the same name, or at least based on the same source as the New Zealand version, the play, Message From Mars.