Yesterday Adam and I dug in at the National Archives once again to see what we could dig up on the Travel & Industrial Development Association (otherwise known as TIDA) and how their film department came to morph into a British Council operation. We learnt quite a bit. —- TIDA was conceived in the middle …
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010) – really amazing film, really amazing person. There are quite a few of the British Council films photographed by an early career Jack Cardiff we’ll be aiming to get digitised very soon. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1626811/
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 …
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.
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. …
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 …
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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Researching around these films is a bit like trying to put together a jigsaw, but instead of a nice boxed set, what you’ve got is a bag full of jigsaw pieces, with no guarantee that there’s only one jigsaw in the bag, or that you have all of the pieces to any of them. We …
