Showing posts with label pioneer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pioneer. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 01, 2022

A Fleck of Family History: Origin of Lisle's name

(From my Grandmother's (Zina) writings) 

Recorded  September 8, 1963

Dad was named for his Uncle Lisle who died at the age of twelve due to an accident caused by an injury to his spine from wooden box falling on him.  Also his leg was terribly mangled in the wagon wheel.  He had been sent to get something out of the back of the wagon.  He suffered for 3 weeks from the injury before his death.  Grandmother (Genevieve Nielson) vividly remembers Lisle laying on the mattress while the Doctor Harrington(?) amputated the boy's leg two separate times.  The Neilson were staying at ? during the summer. Grandfather was operated on by Dr. Sherman for his appendix and died subsequently.  Died at the age of 52.  Grandmother (Genevieve) had a mid-wife for Enid and Lisle. 

Here's a link to Lisle's obituary: https://www.deseret.com/1993/10/27/19073093/death-lisle-francis-ashton


Sunday, November 07, 2021

Author #181 : Mara Rockliff introduces Pioneering Filmmaker Alice Guy-Blache


 Lights! Camera! Alice! The Thrilling True Adventures of the First Woman Filmmaker by Mara Rockliff and illustrated by Simona Ciraolo and published by Chronicle Books in San Francisco in 2018.  Alice was a inventive pioneering filmmaker-doing such innovative things like running the film backward, stop motion filming so that objects appeared to move on their own, hand coloring frames (see the gypsy film), and added sound before other filmmakers had figured out how to do such things.  Unfortunately a number of Alice's films were credited to men-some of whom had never even made a film  She chronicled her life story and eventually in the 1980's it came to light and was published in America.  Thanks to the sons of Leon Gaumont who found information in their father's papers and made it public in France she received the Legion of Honor in 1955.  Thank you to "Looking For Alice" who has compiled a number of short films made by Alice Guy-Blache.  See some of these films at: https://www.youtube.com/user/LookingForAlice/videos