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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...

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The 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...

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Bioscope 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...

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France’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...

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The 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...

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The 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...

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Pordenone 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...

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The 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...

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Looking 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...

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Historical 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...

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‘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,...

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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...

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