Smith, Percy Lee Of Beach Park, Illinois, departed this life on Saturday, April 6, 2013 at Vista East Medical Center, Waukegan, Illinois. Percy was born in Topeka, Kansas on March 21, 1925 to the ...

Rare is the musician who turns to filmmaking. Stuart A. Staples, frontman for the Tindersticks — known for dour, sour, sad-sack ballads of doomed romance — joins the likes of Frank Sinatra, Prince, ...

Several of Smith’s early films feature on this BFI release of his works. 1911’s The Strength and Agility of Insects repels as much as it amazes; shots of bluebottles lifting unfeasibly heavy objects ...

A distinguished pioneer of scientific filmmaking, Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. Working as a clerk at the Board of Education, Percy began to photograph the natural world around him, nursing ...

A meditative, immersive tribute to the astonishing work and achievements of naturalist, inventor and pioneering filmmaker F. Percy Smith. Smith worked in the early years of the 20th century, ...