After a fun morning sledging and snowballing with the boys we spent the afternoon watching the Martin Scorsese film Hugo on DVD again. An enjoyable and interesting film in lots of ways. Its about an early film maker, Georges Méliès and the wonder of early cinema, and its origins in the world of clockwork craftsmanship, toys, games and illusions. Méliès was a contemporary of Georges Albert Smith. Smith made some of the ever first films in Hove and had a film studio in St Ann’s Well Gardens. He is one of the Hove pioneers commemorated in Hove museum.
I’m hoping to bring Smith’s story into my film of the princess.
I wonder if Smith and Ka’iulani ever crossed paths on the streets of Hove….. Or if she went to see one of his hypnotist or “psychic” shows at the aquarium.
aprincessinhove 