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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Last night was the official launch of the Time/Image project and we marked the occasion with a screening at London’s renowned Somerset House. Chief Executive of New Deal of the Mind Martin Bright, Head of Digital Domesday Paul Gerhardt and Catherine Fieschi, Director of Counterpoint all gave wonderful speeches pledging their support to the work we’re currently undertaking. We screened London 1942, Steel Goes to Sea and World Garden, which were …
When thinking about archives, the tendancy is to summon images of dark and dank vaults, huge underground warehouses filled with shelves with box upon box upon box. Perhaps the X-Files’ Cigarette Smoking Man is lurking somewhere in shadows, or the Ark of the Covenant hidden away in a pile of crates. And when one talk …
With everyone eager to get the project set up and running in order to make the most out of the British Council’s Film Archive, time is most certainly of the essence. So, after spending all day rushing around the office, hard at it, what can be a better escape than hiding away underground, locking yourself up in …
On Wednesday, three of us decided to head over to the National Archives at Kew to investigate some of the records held on the British Council films. We were aware that there were a lot of separate files held within the catalogue, but I don’t think we were quite expecting to find what we did. …
