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William Friese-Greene and John Arthur Roebuck Rudge black plaque

Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, England, United Kingdom

William Friese-Greene and John Arthur Roebuck Rudge black plaque

To perpetuate the name and memory of John Arthur Roebuck Rudge who lived for many years in the adjoining house and after numerous experiments conducted in the basement was the first Englishman to produce moving pictures by means of photographs mounted on a revolving drum And also of his friend Willi

am Friese-Greene who had his studio at no. 9 The Corridor nearby,the inventor of commercial kinematography, being the first man to apply celluloid ribbon for this purpose. Kinematography can thus be a

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