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Filmed warfare was a new phenomenon at the time of the First World War and it was months before the British authorities allowed cameramen up to the front line. David Walsh of the Imperial War Museum...
Are these ‘glorious’ times for the British film industry? At a recent debate at Goldsmiths College on the 3rd of February 2011, four panellists lined up to discuss this motion. Producer Robert Jones...
Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation, 1900-55 By Sarah Street, with a Technical Appendix by Simon Brown (BFI/Palgrave Macmillan, 26 October 2012), 320 pages. ISBN: 978-1844573134...
This is a collection of some of key books and articles on British newsreels and cinemagazines. The BUFVC publications can be ordered here. A fuller bibliography that includes essays, newspaper articles,...
Shadows (1959) 2012. GB. Blu-ray + DVD. 82 minutes (plus 30 minutes of extras). BFI Home Video. Certificate PG. Price: £19.99 + Faces (1968). 2012. GB. Blu-ray + DVD. 130 minutes (plus 80 minutes of...
STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Government has long identified STEM education as a major priority, built on strong subject teaching. Alice Coates, National STEM...
The Sounds of the Silents in Britain, edited by Julie Brown and Annette Davison. (Oxford University Press, 2013). 352 pages. ISBN: 978-0199797615 (hardback), £65; ISBN: 978-0199797547 (paperback), £22.50....
Branding and Sponsorship within Britain’s Premier Horror Festival A Guest Blog by Simon Hobbs, PhD Research Student at the University of Portsmouth This year’s Film4 FrightFest marked my first...
Roundabout (1962-1974) was a monthly Technicolor series designed to promote Britain as a progressive world leader to south and south-east Asia. Produced by the British government through its Central Office...
JS: Aside from your established track record in television, you’d done a stint as Head of the BFI Production Board in the late 1970s. Was film always a personal passion? What were your reasons for...
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