BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
May 1929 Gaumont advertise the imminent production of Gaumont Sound News, a sound version of Gaumont Graphic June 1929 Gaumont release...
Today we can watch the news at any time, from any place. 'News on demand' is one of many aspects of the digital revolution that is changing news production and distribution as we speak. In the late 1920s...
The entire newsreel archive of British Movietonews has been published on a Movietone YouTube channel by AP Archive who manage the collection. What does this mean? The publication of thousands of news...
At the Oscars this year THE KING'S SPEECH was awarded the prize for best film, best director, best actor and best screenplay. Details of the night's awards can be accessed here. Director Tom Hooper’s film...
The Project ‘David Lean and Gaumont Sound News' was funded by the David Lean Foundation. The project was led by Luke McKernan and the Senior Researcher was Linda Kaye. The prime goals were twofold....
[caption id="attachment_8066" align="alignright" width="155" caption="The Listener, 23 June 1937"][/caption] The Listener was a BBC broadcast magazine, a more upmarket and intellectually stimulating...
As we move into a digital age for moving images and people debate whether 'film is dead', the story of Gaumont Sound News echoes similar concerns, frustrations and debates as the advent of a new technology...
The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,600 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or...
[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...
In the late 1920s David Lean started out as a tea boy/runner at Gaumont's studios at Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush. After a variety of jobs he finally helped to cut an early sound feature film directed by...
Learning on Screen