The Fugitive Futurist (1924) | BFI National Archive. Book now: http://www.bfi.org.uk/2001 Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI. This witty short proffers futuristic visions of London landmarks by way of a 'magic' camera. But while its gleeful inventor turns out to be an escapee from the local asylum, French director Gaston Quiribet may not have been entirely barking up the wrong tree with one of his trick shots - which imagines Trafalgar Square flooded by rising sea levels. Could this be a prophetic glimpse of our great capital's fate? Watch more films from the BFI National Archive on the BFI Player: http://player.bfi.org.uk/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BFI Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BritishFilmInstitute Follow us on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+britishfilminstitute/

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1. We missed the best part. The man in the top hat who was so angered to discover that the "inventor" was an escapee from the lunatic asylum was even more shocked when the next day at the race events happened even as were predicted.
2. Who would put a train on tower bridge.
3. Schizoid! Much psichodelical!
4. How did they do Trafalgar Square flooded? And what's that on the clock face of Big Ben?
5. Stepasaur... I think the image was printed on a glass plate and exposed to a solvent to destroy the image. Doing it again for the fade to image but running the film in the camera  backwards and dissolving from the opposite direction. Used again in Radio Ranch and the Commander Cody serials to show death rays melting rocks into lava.
6. THINK FACT
7. whatever happened to canes?
8. Needs more cowbell.
9. No more Napoleon`s just the victim`s of the Chemical Kosh 
10. The monorail train looks far too good on this video. It looks far more modern then what they thought. It almost looks fake on this video demostration. Because the monorail looks just far too good for a film like this to be 1924.  Unless of course there where allready plans on type of monorails then in projects there for its no wonder why they make this out like a future thing. 
11. Can anyone explain/suggest how the melt dissolve was achieved? was it melting the end of one strip and melting the start of another then splicing the two together? great effect
12. I think the 06:15 of this video is that in 1924 they allready had plans been created for railway trains such way. Because in the 1930s there was allready such thing aniways. I think.... These ideas i bet it was made 3 years before 1924. Aniways 1924 isnt like 100s of years ago.. Not yet aniways. But its interesting that illustrated train rail. I think they obviously had preview plans for this.. Its like the new plasma large flat screen tv's where on the drawing board in 1993/1994.. Nothing new.
13. so true. :D
14. joke? got it? no.
15. The guy in the top hat bears a striking resemblance to Matt Smith, the Eleventh Doctor.
16. Just learn to play some piano and you will have sound :)
17. no audio.
18. @tannalv Thank god and why would you want it to? Let me guess you want it knocked down and replaced with some garish modern building..NUTS!!
19. pô, quem criou esse filmaço?
20. I guess that's why they now call that editing transformation a 'dissolve'!