Posted in Events, General, Museums on March 12, 2008 | No Comments »
On 22nd February a new museum, the Movieum, opened at County Hall in London. It claims to take visitors behind the scenes of the British film industry through its use of moving image artefacts to chart the production process. The Movieum of London website describes itself in these terms
‘The Movieum is a movie museum that [...]
Posted in General on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Steve Chibnall, Professor of British Cinema at De Montfort University, is the winner of the Apple iTouch. In an informal ceremony Murray Weston, Chief Executive of the British Universities Film & Video Council, pulled the lucky slip of paper out of a large paper clip container earlier today.
The Chibnall British Cinema Collection is a private [...]
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 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 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 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 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 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, General, Television on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Related documentation, such as scripts, personal papers, technical manuals and catalogues, are also included in the survey because of the invaluable context they can supply. The Institute of Education at the University of London has a collection of pamphlets (1926-1979) produced by the BBC, originally to accompany schools radio broadcasts from September 1926. [...]
