Following our six month placement at the British Council set up by Counterpoint and New Deal of the Mind where TIME/IMAGE was born, we have now gone independent! We are very happy to announce we will still be continuing to work on digitising, archiving and making available the British Council film archive – with other […]
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For the sake of digital archives – we have archived our old website… Click here to visit
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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
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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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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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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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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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/
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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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