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For an illuminating rendition of 1920s newsreel editing, take a look at the Newsfilm Online high-quality download of 'Gaumont Graphic Editor and Women's Lacrosse Battle' (25/10/1928), a Gaumont Graphic...
28th December 1933 The final issue of Gaumont Sound News is released, CHRISTMAS REEL 1933. From January 1934 the series was issued under a new title Gaumont British News with Leonard...
David Lean and Gaumont Sound News is a short-term research project funded by the David Lean Foundation. It will add the history of one of the earliest British sound newsreels to the British Universities...
Between 1910 and 1979 the newsreels, released twice a week in British cinemas, were a major news medium, and gave millions their picture of national and world events. The newsreels were shown in cinemas as...
Between 1910 and 1979 the newsreels, released twice a week in British cinemas, gave millions their picture of national and world events. They have now preserved an invaluable record of life and news in the...
There is very little material on early sound newsreels and even less on this period of David Lean's career. Kevin Brownlow's book provides the most detail, the rest are glimpses and context. BUFVC pdf on...
The UPITN television news agency operated on a global level in the 1970s. Cameramen, most of them on a freelance contract, were stationed in UPI bureaus dotted all around the world. 16mm film cameras were...
January 1930 Bi-weekly longer 'super edition' released alongside 'ordinary' edition. Required an expansion of the editorial team and likely that Lean joined now ...
Thirteen British Council films from the 1940s have been digitised and are now available from their Time/Image website. These documentaries reflect the work of great directors such as Mary Field (Development...
[caption id="attachment_1166" align="alignright" width="200"] News Theatre, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne c.1937[/caption] In the early 1930s people went to the cinema to watch the newsreels, to see...