Things Australian no. 1: The Marvellous Corricks
Les Fleurs Animées (Pathé, France 1906), from the Corrick Collection in the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia For the past few years those attending the Pordenone silent film festival have...
View ArticleThe age of colours
Kinemacolor projector (left) and Kinemacolor camera, on display at the Capturing Colour exhibition at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. The projector is from the Sarosh Collection at the National...
View ArticleBioscope Newsreel no. 16
http://www.chaplinmuseum.com Raymond Griffith: A Physiognomic Appreciation David Cairns has been writing about comedian Raymond Griffith, “the most shamefully neglected performer in Hollywood...
View ArticleFrance’s finest
Kino Lorber are releasing a second DVD set of Gaumont films. The first, Gaumont Treasures vol. 1(1897-1913), featured films made by Alice Guy, Louis Feuillade, and Léonce Perret, and was effectively a...
View ArticleThe Moon is yellow
The colour version of Georges Méliès’ Le voyage dans la lune (1902), from http://www.technicolorfilmfoundation.org May 11 sees the unveiling at the Cannes Film Festival of what may be the film...
View ArticleThe Turconi project
Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs (1907), Amleto (1910) and Au pays de l’or (1908), stencil coloured film clippings from from www.progettoturconi.it Just over one hundred years ago, a Swiss priest had an...
View ArticlePordenone diary 2011 – day four
Audience in the Teatro Verdi awaiting the screening of Le Voyage dans la lune in colour, David Robinson (far right) introducing The days go by, as they tend to do, and here I am on my last day in...
View ArticleThe Delhi Durbar
The 1911 Delhi Durbar, showing the royal pavilion. From Wikimedia Commons To the north of Delhi lies a deserted and desolate patch of open ground, surrounded by slums and a dual carriageway. Trees and...
View ArticleLooking back on 2011
News in 2011, clockwise from top left: The White Shadow, The Artist, A Trip to the Moon in colour, Brides of Sulu And so we come to the end of another year, and for the Bioscope it is time to look...
View ArticleHistorical colours
Recreated Kinemacolor image from With Our King and Queen through India (1912), showing the Elephant Gate at Delhi, from Cinémathèque Française, reproduced on the Historical Film Colors timeline...
View Article‘We Put the World Before You’
I love this picture of Charles Urban. The great Anglo-American movie mogul is seen on the left in his offices at Kinemacolor House, Wardour Street, London, around 1912. He is authoritative, bullish,...
View ArticleThings Australian no. 1: The Marvellous Corricks
Les Fleurs Animées (Pathé, France 1906), from the Corrick Collection in the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia For the past few years those attending the Pordenone silent film festival have...
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