Harvester: A Screen Heritage Tumblr

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Vintage future: How Metamono write music for early British science films

Musician Jono Podmore writes on scoring early British science films for a world premiere at Bradford International Film Festival.

Amazing work from National Media Museum here...

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From a virtual Tour de France race to the Ed Wood of 60s soft-core porn, the return of the London Archive Film Festival to the Cinema Museum will see the screening of outstanding films that use the unique power of archival footage to drive their narrative. The Festival's ethos is very much international and the choice of this year's films reflects the diverse subjects and themes of films using archive footage.

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Amazing archive compiled film premiering at London Sci-fi Festival - 'When I Will be a Dictactor'

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Human fish and the 10-stone toddler: the weird world of British Pathé

British Pathé has uploaded 3,500 hours of historic footage to YouTube. Stephen Moss dives into the archive and discovers the mind-boggling strangeness of our recent past

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British Pathé releases 85,000 films on YouTube

Newsreel archive British Pathé has uploaded its entire collection of 85,000 historic films, in high resolution, to its YouTube channel. This unprecedented release of vintage news reports and cinema...

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A day in the life of the BFI National Archive

Go behind the scenes at the BFI National Archive’s Conservation Centre, where we preserve and restore the nation’s film collection. 

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Matt Wolf and the Vintage Remixers

A look at five innovators who breathe new life into found footage and historic reels.

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Metamono will perform a new piece created to accompany a selection of the extraordinary early short films of pioneering film producer and showman Charles Urban.

New commission by Bradford Film Festival!

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Robin Baker, Head Curator - BFI National Archive, speaking at our ‘New Audiences for Screen Heritage’ event; discussing the future of film’s past.

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"We don't want a one night stand - we want a marriage."

Bryony Dixon, Head Curator of Silent Film, BFI (spoke about screenings at New Audiences for Screen Heritage Innovation Lab, 20/02/2014)

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Julie Andrews (Aged 13) sings for King George Vl in 1948

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“At 7 I saw Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain and discovered the movies, loved them and swallowed them whole. And my love was as muscular as my Catholicism but without any of the drawbacks. Musicals, melodramas, westerns, nothing was to rich or too poor for my rapacious appetite and I gorged myself with a frequency that would shame a sinner. “

Terence Davies, Of Time and City (Sarah Bourne of the ICO's favourite quote from the film)

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Of Time and the City

Director Terence Davies' love song to his native city of Liverpool.

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Article on Kenneth Goldsmith - UbuWeb founder

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/16320/1/kenneth-goldsmith

http://www.ubu.com/film/

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A handy guide to sourcing archive films, practical considerations, programming and marketing tips.

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Before and After UbuWeb: A conversation about artists' film and video distribution

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2014/feb/20/and-after-ubuweb-distributing-artists-film-and-vid/?ref=journal_p1_post_title

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Image from BBC's World War One coverage - 'How did World War One Change Your World?'