Jack Jones film screening – 11th January 2019
FIRST SCREENING IN WEST LONDON! Friday 11th January at 7.30 pm. West London Trade Union Club, 33-35 High Street, Acton, […]
Jerome Kuehl 1931-2018
“JERRY KUEHL – media historian and long time member of the British Entertainment History Project The archive world has received
“Pinching pictures”: Alf Tunwell and the art of the newsreel
Fifty-five years ago Ralph Bond, documentary filmmaker and Vice-President of the ACTT film and television union, sat down in the
Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema
This month (April 2018) the BFI is running a retrospective on Woodfall Films, the company which in the late 1950s
The art of film grading: Bill Girdlestone
The BEHP’s audio interview with Bill Girdlestone – conducted in 1987, and now digitised and available on the website
Sidney Cole: editor, producer, union man
Recently digitised and now available online (https://historyproject.org.uk/interview/sidney-cole) is the British Entertainment History Project’s 1987 interview with Sidney Cole. Sidney
IN THE BEGINNING: EARLY DAYS IN TALKIES AND TV
If Dallas Bower is remembered today, it is probably as the driving force behind the 1944 Laurence Olivier film of
The Birth of Pop: Saturday Club on the Light Programme
On 30th September 2017 we mark the 50th anniversary of the transformation of the BBC’s Light Programme into Radios 1
Victim: Brave and Bitter
It’s not often that a film or TV programme has a direct, measurable political impact, and perhaps today, with
Live from Lime Grove: Michael Bond before Paddington Bear
Michael Bond passed away three weeks ago, but when I visited the statue of Paddington Bear at Paddington Station yesterday,
Roger Moore’s Bond movies
The death of Roger Moore last month triggered a wave of nostalgia, with the main focus inevitably on his
Girls Like Us: Women Editors in British Film
The ‘Girls Like Us: British Women and WWII Cinema’ season continues at the National Film Theatre in May with more