Visit the old site
For the sake of digital archives – we have archived our old website… Click here to visit
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Royal Road – The King Among His Subjects
If only we had this digitised in time… King George VI with his soldiers, sailors and airmen, the leader of an Empire at war. He inspects arsenals, factories and shipyards; he visits the bombed areas. The film includes happy glimpses of the home life of the Royal Family. Films of Britain – British Council Film Department
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6 Rings
Today marks the final day of our six month placement and with it the final ring of our logo changes colour to make a matching set. But as you may have guessed from the fact we have a new website – this is not the end for TIME/IMAGE. All will be revealed soon… after a
Interview with Craig McCall – Director of ‘Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff’ (2010)’
Jack Cardiff, the acclaimed cameraman/cinematographer behind a number of the British Council films, is the subject of Craig McCall’s recent film Cameraman: The Life and Works of Jack Cardiff. Having discovered Craig McCall’s film a wee while ago, we got in touch with him for a chat. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes”
Side-by-side: Heart of an Empire (1935) / Heart of an Empire Remake (2011)
Watch the original Heart of an Empire (1935) next to our ‘remade in a day entirely on an iPad in 2011‘ version below. We recommend watching it at 720p in fullscreen. Those damn pelicans… [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left”
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Heart of an Empire Remake
Yesterday we set ourselves the challenge of remaking the entirety of Heart of an Empire (1935) from the British Council Film Archive… in a single day… entirely on an iPad 2. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][fusion_youtube http://youtu.be/CFhTObl4bMs?hd=1/] We
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This week’s update from the National Archive
This week Sarah left me to my own devices as I spent a sunny afternoon down at the National Archives rifling through a file on the Imperial Relations Trust Film Committee… Not to be confused with the Joint Film Committee of the Travel Association and British Council (see Sarah’s blog post for last week), the
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Spot the Cameraman!
Upon watching the newly digitised British Council film “The Little Ships of England” (which will up and online very soon) on the BFI’s shiny new box-set “Tales From the Shipyard”, our eagled-eyed Sarah spotted a cameraman in hidden in plain sight! The shot occurs during the launch of a newly-built ship, the filming of which utilises multi-cameras
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British Council and the Distribution of Newsreels
The main focus of TIME/IMAGE’s work so far has been on the short documentary films that were commissioned by the British Council during the 1930’s and 40’s, but the Council was also involved in the supply and international distribution of British Newsreels. The nature of the Council’s work, a keen interest in cultural exchanges, and
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Films of the British Council catalogue wiki
As some of you may have already noticed we have recently moved our existing html based catalogue of the British Council film archive to a wikispaces account: http://www.timeimage.wikispaces.com/ or http://www.wiki.timeimage.org.uk. Wikispaces [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][http://www.wikispaces.com/], not to be
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