Posted in Museums on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
The Cinema Museum has won a temporary reprieve according to an article in Time Out this week. It was due to close at the end of this month after the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, the owners of the building, had decided to sell out. However, the Trust has agreed to allow the museum [...]
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 Museums on December 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), the pioneering photographer who changed the history of the moving image, was born and grew up in Kingston upon Thames. He moved to the United States in 1852 where he developed his interest in analytical motion photography, eventually producing in the 1880s an exhaustive series of photographs, Animal Locomotion. The [...]
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 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 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 [...]
Posted in Museums, Television, Toys on October 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
What do toys, cameras, board games, projectors and televisions have in common? Well, apart from our Survey, they are all made of plastic and comprise an important element of the collection held at the Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDIP) within the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. Amateur cine cameras, television receivers and projectors [...]
Posted in Museums on October 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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. [...]
