Posted in Documentation, Magic lanterns on October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
John Wesley courtesy of Elsbury Images
Elsbury Images Magic Lantern Powerpoint
Many substantial collections of moving image artefacts in the United Kingdom have been built over many years, fuelled by the enthusiasm of an individual. Elsbury Images is the commerical aspects of such a personal collection which includes magic lanterns and magic lantern slides from 1880-1910, [...]
Posted in Events, General on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »
The UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage takes place this Saturday, the 27th October with a variety of activities taking place across the globe designed to focus international attention on the importance of audiovisual material within human memory, culture and identity. In his downloadable message, the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, has called for [...]
Posted in Cinemas on October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
La Charette, officially deemed the smallest cinema in Wales, has closed after fifty years, the BBC reported yesterday. The 23-seat cinema was built by electrician Gwyn Phillips and housed in an old railway carriage in his back garden in Gorseinon, near Swansea. Although a club has maintained the cinema since his death in [...]
Posted in Cinemas on October 19, 2007 | No Comments »
As the debate on the long-term preservation of our national screen heritage continues to focus primarily on the moving images themselves, it’s worth highlighting two major cinema restoration projects that are taking place in Britain at the moment. If you know of any more, do let us know.
Each of these concerns very different examples [...]
Posted in General, Videos on October 17, 2007 | No Comments »
There is a summary available of the recent symposium on Screen Heritage which was held at Roehampton University on 22 September.
Included with the summary is an audio recording of the summing up of the day’s debates, made by Professor John Ellis of Royal Holloway, University of London.
Posted in Museums on October 17, 2007 | No Comments »
The Cinema Museum in Lambeth has a new website, which is rich in images of its collections of cinema memorabilia, and the buildings in which these are housed. However, the Museum is having to look for a new home. As this article in The Observer reports, the NHS Trust which owns the building (a former [...]
Posted in General, Museums on October 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Delving into local history museums can unearth some unexpected troves of moving image artefacts. Gunnersbury Park Museum in Hounslow, West London may not immediately spring to mind when researching film and television but a clue can be found in the London boroughs it serves, Hounslow and Ealing. Over the years the museum has built [...]
Posted in General on October 12, 2007 | No Comments »
16mm projector spool (BUFVC)
What do we mean by screen heritage? The term has become a popular one of late, with its adoption for the UK Screen Heritage strategy document, which focusses on the film and television archive collections of the UK. However, our definition of screen heritage is broader, and encompasses not only the films [...]
Posted in Documentation, Museums on October 11, 2007 | No Comments »
For most of us, our own moving image artefacts, be it televisions or cameras and all the accompanying paraphernalia, are simply a part of our daily existence, occupying a peripheral area of our lives. It is this almost incidental dimension of screen-related objects that is explored by Beamish, the North of England Open Air [...]
Posted in Cinemas, Museums on October 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Many cinemas faced closure and demolition in the 1960s and 1970s, among them the Broadway cinema in Bristol, which closed its doors in 1972. As we’ve already seen in Cinemas in Museums, some cinemas have been painstakingly re-located within museums but generally buildings are not the easiest objects to move. The [...]
