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'Some people say I have celluloid in my veins instead of blood.' David Lean David Lean (1908-1991) was one of Britain's greatest film directors. He captured the public imagination with films like BRIEF...
25 November 2013 18.45-20.15 Conference Centre, British Library Price: £4 / £3 concessions Book ticketes here Charles Urban is one of the most important figures in early British and America...
The genres below indicate the type or nature of programme. Many clips will have more than one, in particular news reports often include speeches, press conferences or interviews and longer programmes have...
Prof. James Chapman University of Leicester To understand the Inter-University History Film Consortium we must consider the contexts in which the organization emerged. In the late 1960s the teaching of...
A New History of British Documentary by James Chapman (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015), 338 pages, ISBN: 978-1349352098 (paperback), £60 About the reviewer: Michael Chanan, Professor of Film & Video at...
Memories of the Origins of Ethnographic Film edited by Beate Engelbrecht (Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 2007), 504 pages, ISBN: 978-3631507353, £35.80. About the Author: Susanne Hammacher is the Film Officer...
Make More Noise! Suffragettes in Silent Film, BFI, DVD, 71 mins, £19.99. About the reviewer: Kristyn Gorton is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of...
Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles by Mark Shiel (Reaktion Books, April 2012). 336 pages. ISBN: 978-1861899026 (hardback). £25 About the Author: Josh Cluderay is a film graduate of Sheffield...
Electric Edwardians: The Story of the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection by Vanessa Toulmin (BFI, 2006), 310 pages, ISBN: 1-84457-144-0 (hardback), £60; ISBN: 1-84457-145-9 (paperback), £17.99 About the...
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...
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