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PoNaNa becomes Lola Lo
PoNaNa on the Triangle has become a new club called Lola Lo just in time for the new intake of university students who will no doubt be its main customers.
Far more interestingly is that the Queen’s Road building has a plaque dedicated to W. Friese-Greene, a photographer from the 19th century, as shown at the top of this article.
This is what the BFI has to say about William Friese-Greene:
“William Friese-Greene is the most maddening figure in early British film history. He was maddening at the time, and he has continued to create confusion and division ever since. In simple terms, he was an inventor who experimented with putative moving image devices at the dawn of cinema, but whose practical results did not match the claims that he made for them. Others took on those claims after his death, which resulted in Ray Allister’s romanticised biography and the still more romanticised and inaccurate feature film The Magic Box (d. John Boulting, 1951). Friese-Greene was then subjected to critical burial, but in recent years, there has been a tentative revival of interest from historians.”
www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/508948/
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