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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.

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Rough Sea at DoverRough Sea at Dover

Non-Fiction18950 minsSilent

Waves crash onto a jetty on the Kentish shoreline in one of Britain's earliest surviving films

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Incoming TideIncoming Tide

Non-Fiction18981 minsSilent Location: Worthing

Worthing waves at us in this mesmerising early film

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Waves Break on Bow of a ShipWaves Break on Bow of a Ship

Non-Fiction19001 mins

A vicarious ocean-going experience

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Rough Sea at Roker (1901)Rough Sea at Roker (1901)

Non-Fiction19012 minsSilent Location: Roker

Mesmerising film of sea waves on the north east coast of England.

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Rough SeaRough Sea

Non-Fiction19001 minsSilent

Dover’s Admiralty Pier could be the setting for these Victorian shots of waves breaking.

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Rough SeaRough Sea

Non-Fiction19001 minsSilent

Breaking waves at an unidentified coastal location

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Waves Breaking on a PierWaves Breaking on a Pier

Non-Fiction18961 minsSilent

Intrepid tourists brave the great waves breaking on the marina wall at Brighton

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Seawaves No. 1Seawaves No. 1

Amateur film18981 minsSilent

A virtual Victorian paddle; Morecambe West End Pier stretches out in front as waves crash at your feet

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Seawaves No. 2Seawaves No. 2

Amateur film18981 minsSilent

Waves roll onto a shingle beach and breakwater on the Northeast coast

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Sea Breaking against Some RocksSea Breaking against Some Rocks

Non-Fiction18981 minsSilent

Waves on the North Devon coastline

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Rough Seas Breaking on RocksRough Seas Breaking on Rocks

18992 mins

A simple - and simply mesmerising - film of waves breaking on a rocky shore.