The Films of Britain series consists of seven booklets, produced between 1939 and 1950. Initially describing itself simply as ‘A List of Documentary Films’, they are produced by TIDA and the British Council Film Department and detail the contents of a variety of documentary films, including those produced by TIDA and the British Council. It […]
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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
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