The Girl You Don’t See: Julie Harris and the Costume Designer in British Cinema
Author: Melanie Williams, (School of Art, Media & America Studies, University of East Anglia) Screen costume has now been firmly established […]
“The Coming of the Projectionettes”: Women’s Work in Film Projection and Changing Modes of Spectatorship in Second World War British Cinemas
Author: Rebecca Harrison, (School of Art, Media & America Studies, University of East Anglia) In December 1940, S G Rayment, the editor of
The Stanley Kubrick Archives
Author: Joy Cuff ( née Seddon) On my first visit to the Stanley Kubrick archives, I began looking through an inventory that detailed
The Making of Oral History (Article by Graham Smith)
Source: Graham Smith, Institute of Historical Research, London University (www.history.ac.uk) This article provides an excellent introduction to Oral History, from Developments in
‘Stage, Screen & Radio’ magazine: History Project contribution – December 2015
Over recent months the BECTU History Project has been busily continuing its interviews with women and men from across the
Full Circle
This is a copy of a magazine article from 2012 in which “Janice Turner (Editor) reviews a study by Andrew Dawson and
The BECTU History Project (BECTU Conference Agenda Article 2015)
There are many reasons why knowing our history is important, and this is particularly so for trade unionists and trade
Fred Zinneman: Newly acquired interview
The BECTU History Project has just received, from Barri Hitchin, a donation of an interview with the great film maker Fred Zinnemann. Fred had a lot to say
50 Years of British TV Documentaries
50 Years of British TV Documentaries: A Diary of Decline, by a film editor – Simon Rose 2014 With his unique perspective
BECTU Freelancers’ Fair, 29th May 2015, London
The History Project will once again be supporting the industry by participating in this very successful and popular annual event.
Oral History Society Conference, Manchester – 18 July 2014
The History Project is honoured to be presenting a workshop at this year’s Annual Conference of the Oral History Society,
Transforming Transcriptions
There has been some debate in oral history circles about the merit of full transcriptions over key word summaries. Summaries may certainly be quicker, demand limited