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Richard William Pearse (3 December 1877 – 29 July 1953) was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering aviation experiments. Witnesses interviewed many years afterwards describe observing Pearse flying and landing a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes After Dark; or, the Policeman and His Lantern: Alice in Wonderland: Cecil Hepworth: May Clark: At Work in a Peat Bog: Automobile Explosion
The film also shows fragments of an epic Biblical film, Salome, supposedly made by McKenzie in a giant set in the forests of New Zealand, and a "computer enhancement" of a McKenzie film proving that New Zealander Richard Pearse was the first man to invent a powered aircraft, several months before the Wright Brothers. [1]
The year 1903 in film involved many significant events in cinema. Events. Thomas Edison demolishes "America's First Movie Studio", the Black Maria.
21 and 22 aeroplanes (1901–1903) Samuel Pierpont Langley's Aerodrome A (1903) The Wright brothers in the Wright Flyer (1903) Alberto Santos-Dumont in the 14-bis (1906) Other notable claims include: Karl Jatho, in Germany in his biplane (1903) Richard Pearse, in New Zealand in his monoplane (1903–1904) Trajan Vuia, in France (1906)
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The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent Western action film made by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company.It follows a gang of outlaws who hold up and rob a steam train at a station in the American West, flee across mountainous terrain, and are finally defeated by a posse of locals.
Kit Carson is one of the earliest Western films, [3] being released by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in October 1903. (According to silentera.com, portions may have been released the month before. [4]) Part of the footage was reused in The Pioneers, another Western short also released by Biograph in October 1903.