Queen Victoria (1819-1901) - A Life in Images and on Film

At the end of the C19 and the beginning of the C20, film was a new emerging technology and, for some reason or other, I’m totally fascinated by those historical figures who just managed to be captured by the new medium -- people of whom we would have no moving record had the innovation developed just a short time later. For me, the sensation is of time travel - as though I have jumped into a tardis or time machine, keyed in a figure of interest and a date, and then journeyed back over the decades. I want to do a series of videos of people of historical interest who were just captured on film and or audio -- people you may not realise were recoded in these new technologies. I hope this venture interests some others of you as much as it does me! The first in this series is a compilation of some of the film that exists of Queen Victoria (1819-1901). Prior to each clip, I’ve added stills from the footage to locate the queen (circled) -- often the quality of the images is such that it’s easy to mis