Rough Sea at Roker (1901)
- Roker
- 1901
Waves Breaking on the Sea Shore
Waves on the North Devon coastline.
Foaming sea breaks over rocks and a sea wall in what is believed to be Ilfracombe, on the North Devon coast. The study of waves breaking was a popular subject in early moving pictures, and was filmed here by Charles Goodwin Norton to embellish his magic lantern slide shows. Feel free to wave back...
Sea Wave Films
The 'sea wave' genre might be one of the more surprising genres to come out of early film. But for Victorian audiences there was something hypnotic about these compact studies of movement.
Surely most of us, if we've ever stood before the sea have found ourselves transfixed by the rhythms of gently lapping waves. The violent churn of a really rough sea gives us something else again - a real sense of the ocean's magnificent, sometimes alarming power.
11 videos in this collection
Rough Sea at Roker (1901)
Incoming Tide
Waves Break on Bow of a Ship
Rough Sea at Dover
Rough Sea
Rough Sea
Waves Breaking on a Pier
Seawaves No. 1
Seawaves No. 2
Waves Breaking on the Sea Shore
