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City & country
The How and Why of Spuds (1920), National Archives Collection This year’s Northeast Historic Film’s Summer Symposium takes place 25-26 July, at Bucksport, Maine. Northeast Historic Film collects,...
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Pen and pictures no. 4 – Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh (right) and John Greenidge in The Scarlet Woman The subject of the latest in our series on literary figures and silent film is unusual in that his significant engagement with film...
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There’s no such thing as a bad home movie
Frame still of Mavis and Margaret Passmore (holding a piece of 35mm film), from the Passmore family films, c.1903, held by the BFI National Archive So says John Waters, and while we’ve probably all...
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The beskop in Tibet
Bioscope is a word with many meanings (which is why it was chosen for the title of this blog). Bioscope can mean a view of life (its original dictionary definition), a cinematograph camera, a...
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Spinning the Spirograph
A Spirograph with disc in position, from http://www.westlicht-auction.com We all know about having motion pictures in disc form. DVD and increasingly Blu-Ray are the domestic formats of choice, and we...
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At the Cinema Museum
The Cinema Museum, located in the administration block of the former Lambeth workhouse in which Charlie Chaplin’s mother was incarcerated As part of a new fund-raising campaign which aims to secure...
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The lost prince
Prince John in 1913, from Wikipedia While sorting out some papers I came across a clipping which I’d quite forgotten about. It comes from the British film trade journal The Cinema in 1913 (there’s no...
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Lady Lumberjack
Our story begins with Dorothea Mitchell, born in England in 1877 and raised in India, where her father was involved in railway construction. Disappointed in having no sons, Dorothea’s mother...
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Film
Tacita Dean’s artwork Film, projected in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London Will film die? Seen in one way, it never will: our cinematic history exists on celluloid and as long as there are viable...
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Films from the fens
Stencil colour film of Blickling Hall, Norfolk, from Eve and Everybody’s Film Review (1929) A significant release of archive films online, many of them silent, was announced recently. The East Anglian...
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