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Where the wild things are
Percy Smith (left), from F.A. Talbot’s Moving Pictures: How They are Made and Worked (1912) It’s been a long time in coming, but it’s been well worth the wait. Today saw the launc… more »
The Bioscope
Where the wild things are
urbanora wrote 2 months ago: Percy Smith (left), from F.A. Talbot’s Moving Pictures: How They are Made and Worked (1912) … more »
The Lodger on HD
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urbanora wrote 3 months ago: The opening images from The Lodger (1927), from 1000 Frames of Hitchcock This Friday sees what I … more »
The Great War in Colour
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urbanora wrote 3 months ago: The BBC is putting on more for the Albert Kahn and autochrome addicts among you. This Monday BBC2 st … more »
Pordenone On Screen
urbanora wrote 6 months ago: This evening BBC World Service radio is broadcasting an item on the Pordenone music masterclasses as … more »
Comedians on comedians
urbanora wrote 6 months ago: Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns, from www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour The television series Paul Merton … more »
The Twenties in Colour
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urbanora wrote 6 months ago: Dancers in ruins of Angkor-Vat, Cambodia, 1922 © Albert-Kahn museum, from www.ejumpcut.org The p … more »
Seeing it Through
urbanora wrote 6 months ago: Charles Masterman, from www.firstworldwar.com Just a note to folks that this evening on BBC Radio … more »
Three types of authenticity
urbanora wrote 6 months ago: Douglas Mawson’s ship The Aurora, from www.south-pole.com This evening on Channel 4 there w … more »
A little bird tells me...
urbanora wrote 8 months ago: …that the BBC4 series The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn is due for a repeat soon on BBC2, tho … more »
100 years of wildlife films, maybe
urbanora wrote 8 months ago: Martin and Osa Johnson, from www.wildfilmhistory.org Starting this Saturday (August 25th), BBC4 h … more »
Summer of British Film
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urbanora wrote 9 months ago: Today the BBC begins its summer-long season of over 100 British films, divided into seven themes ( … more »
Hyperactive
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urbanora wrote 10 months ago: It’s all Chaplin at the moment. This evening, on BBC Radio 3, there is a 90-minute concert of … more »
Joost shows silents
urbanora wrote 11 months ago: Along with half the online community, or so it seems, I’m one of those testing out the beta … more »
Amnesia
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urbanora wrote 11 months ago: Channel 4 has had another of its engrossing list programmes; this one was Fifty Films to See Before … more »
The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
urbanora wrote 1 year ago: Autochrome of a fringe-maker in Galway, Ireland during May 1913 © Musée Albert Kahn The BBC4 Ed … more »
Edwardian hoodies
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urbanora wrote 1 year ago: Anyone watching BBC television at the moment will have seen the trailer for the BBC4 Edwardians sea … more »
Chaplin - listen again
urbanora wrote 1 year ago: Charlie Chaplin The Mark Kermode Radio 3 programme Chaplin, Celebrity and Modernism was excellent … more »
Chaplin, celebrity and modernism
urbanora wrote 1 year ago: There a programme in the Sunday Feature slot on BBC Radio 3 tonight (21.30 GMT), called Chaplin, Cel … more »
Chaplin saved
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urbanora wrote 1 year ago: Despite Ian Hislop’s best efforts, Charlie Chaplin was saved from Room 101 because Paul Merton … more »
