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More women worked in film during its first two decades than at any time since. Unfortunately, many early women filmmakers have been largely written out of film history, their contributions undervalued. This...
During the belle époque in turn-of-the-century Paris, a short-lived film form called ‘scènes de feeries’, or ‘fairy films’, was made popular thanks to the Pathé Frères company. The films...
A total of 59 films from the pre-1919 era of cinema. Volume 1 has a collection of 13 shorts by the Lumiere brothers. With accompanying music and commentary. Tinted. Volume 2 has a large selection from...
A comic murder mystery conceived and staged by Forkbeard Fantasy to mark their 30th year in the theatre. Set in 1904 in the pioneering days of cinema, a group of fledgling movie makers, desperate to...
This DVD presents fifteen previously little-seen short non-fiction films from 1905-1926 preserved and digitised by the Technical College for Technology and Economics in Berlin (Fachhochschule für Technik...
Four films about Aberdeen. ABERDEEN (1906, b/w) documents the visit of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to the quatercentenary celebrations at Aberdeen University. Includes a commentary by Tom Fleming. In...
This collection of films held by the Staffordshire Film Archives traces the history of the nursing profession in North Staffordshire from the 1920s to the 1980s. In CITY GENERAL NURSES (1988), nurses past...
Radio broadcast. Isn’t silent Shakespeare an oxymoron? All that’s nuanced, beautiful, meaningful in the poetry - silenced. Yet between 1899 and 1927, when the first commercial sound film was released,...
10-hour set celebrating the dynamic, gender-bending, ethnically diverse West that flourished in early movies but has never before been seen on video. The forty films contained in this collection present a...
Podcast. Pamela Hutchinson talks to Barbara Bogaev about the life and career of actress Asta Nielsen and her 1921 film version of Hamlet (qv), which depicted the title character as a princess.
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