Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (3 Parts)

Synopsis: Series telling the story of early film-making in Europe. Narrator: Kenneth Branagh.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 3 x 120 min.
Year of production: 1995
Availability: Sale; 1998 sale: £44.95 (inclusive) retail (set)
Notes: Broadcast in 6 parts BBC2 from 1/10/95.
Documentation: Related article by Barry Norman in ‘Radio Times’ (30/9/98), p72.
Subjects: Media studies
Keywords: early cinema

Director

Dan Carter; David Gill; Kevin Brownlow; Michael Winterbottom

Producer

David Gill; Kevin Brownlow

Cast

Kenneth Branagh

Title: Where it all began / Art’s promised land
Synopsis: 1: WHERE IT ALL BEGAN (directors David Gill and Kevin Brownlow): traces the birth of the industry in Europe from the first moving pictures screened in 1895 through to World War 1. Shows the hand-coloured fantasies of George Melies, the comedy of Max Linde
Title: Unchained camera, The / The mask of light
Synopsis: 2: THE UNCHAINED CAMERA (directors David Gill and Kevin Brownlow): Looks at German film-makers who flourished in a period of extraordinary artistic and technical creativity between the wars. Techniques such as the 'unchained camera' were developed, perman
Title: Opportunity lost / End of an era
Synopsis: 3: OPPORTUNITY LOST (directors David Gill and Kevin Brownlow): Looks at the British film industry and examines why British cinema failed ot keep up with that of Germany and France. Many new film techniques had been pioneered in the UK before World War 1,