Discovering Kew’s World Garden
An interview with Kew archivist Michele Losse.
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February 2011
Long Live Living British Cinema
Last night Living British Cinema hosted their inaugural event at Queen Mary Univeristy of London and the TIME/IMAGE team was there to screen three films from the British Council Archive. The screening was preceded by a talk from Lucy Bolton and Charles Drazin, the founders of Living British Cinema, TIME/IMAGE’s very own Samuel Milsom issued a call to all
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The Market Town of Newark
First Boston, now Newark! TIME/IMAGE’s Sarah Cole chats to Matt Colbourne of Newark’s BOUNDARY SOUND 102.6fm: Click here to listen. Watch Market Town (1942) here.
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Education Education Education
Very early on we discovered that many of the films within the British Council film archive were commissioned or produced with the intent to distribute them across the world. This seemed fairly obvious given that the British Council’s primary objective is to build mutual trust and healthy relations between the United Kingdom and other countries.
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The Boston Standard
The United Kingdom, as a number of the digitised films observe, is a diverse land – of mountains and beaches, of fields and industry. To emphasise this, the British Council films focus on not just Britain as a whole, but as a heterogeneous country with distinct regions and peoples – highlighted through those films focusing
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The Importance of Short Film: Then and Now
Throughout its cinematic life, short film has continually adapted its function. Following the infancy of cinema, where audiences revelled in the delightful spectacle of a new medium, the coinciding development of classical narrative cinema and technological advancement in the early part of the 20th century established the movie industry as a big business on a
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Showreel: Films of the British Council
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