Hove Museum and Art Gallery has an extensive collection of artefacts relating to early film. These include a Magic Lantern collection of around 7,000 magic lantern slides, magic lanterns and toy magic lanterns, an Optical Toy collection and the Barnes collection of moving-image apparatus and ephemera pertaining to the Brighton School of pioneering film-makers. This encompasses early cine cameras made by Alfred Darling, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, including Darling’s ‘Special Effects’ 35mm cine camera of 1899 and Smith’s Kinemacolor cine camera of 1910. The Museum’s interactive Film Gallery explores the role of Hove in the birth of cinema and visitors can follow the invention of film through displays of working optical toys, magic lanterns and cameras.
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Our Survey
Please help us to compile the first ever directory of moving image and screen-related artefacts in UK collections. If your institution has cameras, television sets, costumes, magic lantern slides, video games, props, documents, or cinema memorabilia, we would love to hear from you. Access survey here
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Network members
- AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies
- Armley Mills Leeds Industrial Museum
- BAFTA
- BBC Information and Archives
- BECTU
- Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture
- BKSTS - the Moving Image Society
- British Film Institute
- British Universities Film & Video Council
- Cinema Museum
- Cinema Theatre Association
- Elstree Film and Television Heritage Group
- Film Archive Forum
- Focal International
- Grierson Trust
- Hove Museum & Art Gallery
- Iamhist
- ITV
- Magic Lantern Society
- National Media Museum
- Production Guild
- Projected Picture Trust
- Royal Television Society
- Wallflower Press
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- Cinemas (6)
- Documentation (6)
- Events (5)
- General (10)
- Magic lanterns (5)
- Museums (16)
- Network members (4)
- Publications (1)
- Sound (1)
- Technology (4)
- Television (4)
- Toys (1)
- Videos (2)
Archives
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