Series of programmes about the pioneers of moving pictures, with footage from some of the earliest known films.

This episode of the Granada TV series Moving Pictures looks at two pioneers of British film at the turn of the century: William Haggar and Charles Urban. Haggar and his family were a troupe of travelling players who performed melodramas and went into filmmaking in Wales and ultimately ran a cinema. The American Charles Urban was the first filmmaker to try to build an encyclopaedia of film to exploit the power of the new medium to educate as well as entertain.

Series of programmes about the pioneers of moving pictures, with footage from so
me of the earliest known films made.