Rough Sea ( Rough Sea ) is a    • James Bamforth   film shot in 1900 at an unidentified location on the British coast. The film was produced by the production company founded by the director himself: the Bamforth Company .
Rough seas were a popular subject for early filmmakers keen to demonstrate the thrilling new medium of moving pictures. It was an especially popular subject in Great Britain where the first film to receive a public screening was    • Rough Sea At Dover (1895) Birt Acres   film from which James Bamforth was evidently inspired.
Nor was Birt Acres the first to be fascinated by the sea; in 1891 Étienne-Jules Marey had recorded waves crashing on a rock in the Bay of Naples: (00:54) his La Vague is one of the oldest surviving films in history.

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Note to this edition . The original film is silent, the sound in this video is from my recording in Dajla, Croatia, in 2020. The other films at the end of the video are (in order): La Vague (1891) by Étienne-Jules Marey , Rough Sea at Dover (1895) by Birt Acres , A Storm at Sea (1900) by the Edison Manufacturing Company.