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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...
To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the launch of Channel 4, in November the University of Portsmouth held a two-day conference dedicated to the output of the UK’s fourth terrestrial TV channel. Dr...
From its inception in 1982 to its demise in 1998 (with the launch of the subscription service FilmFour, now Film4 on Freeview), Film on Four was the flagship broadcast strand for new feature films...
[caption id="attachment_452" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Picture by Queenie and the Dew"][/caption] With Channel 4’s recent announcement that an additional £1m will be invested in the...
Dr Shane O’Sullivan, Kingston University, reports on a new pilot scheme allowing undergraduate film students to access footage from the BFI National Archive for use in their own documentaries. About the...
To celebrate the publication of the 100th issue of Viewfinder, the BUFVC’s quarterly print publication, Olwen Terris, the BUFVC’s Information Officer, takes a look at the long history of the publication....
Is the BBC truly an impartial public broadcaster? Dr Tom Mills, author of The BBC: Myth of a Public Service, charts a brief history of perceived political bias at the Corporation. About the Author: Dr Tom...
José Arroyo, Principal Teaching Fellow In Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, underlines his experiences teaching at Cuba’s world-renowned Escuela Internacional de Cine y...
Following on from Ieuan Franklin's excellent blog which discussed such mind-bendingly psychedelic Films on Four as Born of Fire (Jamil Dehlavi, 1987), Shadey (Phillip Saville, 1987) and Silent Scream (David...
[caption id="attachment_365" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Courtesy Sander Spolspoel under CC Licence."][/caption] Ahead of a visit to Pinewood Studios today, David Cameron has said that the film...
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