Posted in General, Sound on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
One of the most innovative exponents of sound location shooting, Peter Handford, died last month at the age of 88. His work on British New Wave films such as Room at the Top and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning established him as a master of his craft which was eventually recognised in semi-retirement with [...]
Posted in Artworks, Documentation on November 26, 2007 | No Comments »
An area that is often pushed to the periphery in discussions of moving image artefacts is that of art works and installations. The irony here is that this material is usually at the cutting edge in the production and presentation of screen related media and perhaps should be more at the forefront of our [...]
Posted in General on November 18, 2007 | No Comments »
The deadline for the Screen Heritage Network’s survey of moving image and screen-related artefacts in UK collections has been extended by one week to Friday 7 December 2007. The survey is open to any UK collection with artefacts relating to the moving image and screen-related media which may be accessible to the public or researchers. [...]
Posted in Events on November 13, 2007 | No Comments »
A report by Ian MacDonald, on the symposium held at Roehampton University on 22 September to discuss the future of screen heritage in the UK, is now available from the MeCCSA website.
Posted in General, Publications on November 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Brian Coe (Stephen Herbert collection)
Sadly, last month saw the death of Brian Coe, one of the most important figures in the preservation and documentation of the UK’s screen heritage in the last century. Brian was Curator of the Kodak Museum 1969-1984, then Curator at the Royal Photographic Society in Bath, before joining the Museum of [...]
Posted in Cinemas, Museums on November 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Model of the Palaceum cinema, from www.twickenham-museum.org.uk
Twickenham Museum is a model example of a small museum which has used its website to display more materials and bzackground texts on local history than it can within the small space of its actual building. The site has an excellent section on the cinemas of Twickenham, from 1911 [...]
Posted in Magic lanterns on November 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Hoare biunial (two-lens) magic lantern, National Media Museum collection
There’s a thoughtful article (’Shapes of things to come’ 
by Philip Kennicott in the Washington Post, reviewing a recreation of a nineteenth-century magic lantern show, which is relevant to the broad concept of screen heritage.
Kennicott went to see a lantern show present by the Belgian Herman Bollaert [...]
