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Archive Film Screenings
Published: 31 August 2010As part of the Industrial Revolutionises exhibition at the Harris Museum in Preston there are two special events taking place at the University of Central Lancashire.
Yard Works on Film
Thurs 9 September 7.30 – 9pm
This features films made by Will Onda of Horrockses Yard Works in 1913 for the occasion of the Royal Visit to Preston … -
IWM Student Film Festival and Competition
Published: 3 August 2010The Imperial War Museum has just launched its annual student and amateur Film Making Competition and Festival. Now in its tenth year, the festival will run from November to December 2010.
There are three competition categories: ‘Annie Dodds Award for the Best Documentary,’ ‘Best Imaginative Response to the Subject of War’ and’Winner of the Audience Poll.’ … -
Going to War 1939-45: Film, History and the Second World War
Published: 20 July 2010This year the annual Winter Conference of the Institute of Historical Research focuses on the most filmed historical phenomenon of modern times, the Second World War. Hosted together with the Imperial War Museum over two days, 22-23rd October 2010, the conference brings together directors, such as John Boorman and Kevin Brownlow, and film historians to …
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Bioethics in NewsFilm Online
Published: 9 July 2010This companion site to the Bioethics Bytes blog provides a detailed index to the bioethics-related content of the Newsfilm Online resource and is based on the research undertaken by Sarah Curtis at the University of Leicester. There is a spreadsheet to cover the entire research project’s results available as a PDF but the resource can …
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Film and the Historian – Site Now Live
Published: 21 May 2010
The InterUniversity History Film Consortium changed the way we looked at film and history. Watch their films at this new microsite. -
BUFVC on BBC’s ‘The One Show’
Published: 9 April 2010In the four editions of The One Show being broadcast from Thursday 8 April 2010 on BBC1, Giles Brandreth takes a light-hearted look at the history of the British Pathe newsreel. Among the interviewees is Linda Kaye, the BUFVC’s Research Executive and co-editor of Projecting Britain: The Guide to British Cinemagazines. The current edition still …
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Reel News – Introducing Television
Published: 2 March 2010For an early instance of ‘electric vision’ as demonstrated by one of the pioneers of television, John Logie Baird (1888-1946), see the high-quality download of the Gaumont Graphic newsreel story Television (29/08/1928). For viewers without an UK HE/FE subscription, the story is also accessible on the ITN Source website.
In 1932 control of Baird … -
Reel News – Editing
Published: 1 February 2010For 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 newsreel story guest-edited by J. H. Thomas, British trade-union leader and politician. For viewers without an UK HE/FE subscription, the story is also accessible on …
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Will Regional Television News Survive 2010?
Published: 18 January 2010The prognosis is not good according to Steve Hewlett’s short analysis (The Guardian 18/1/2010) of the options surrounding the Independently Financed News Consortiums. He argues that this solution, for provision of local news beyond the BBC, is already being undermined, even as the list of bidders eager to participate in the pilots is being published. …
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Reel News: The Animated Story
Published: 8 December 2009Did you know that newsreels entertained their audiences with humorous and often pointedly satirical animated takes on important events? Some of the earliest animations produced for Gaumont Graphic were George E. Studdy’s war cartoons shown from March to July 1915. This remarkable series adds an important dimension to our understanding of the representation of the …
