Film historian, tea drinker, archive fetishist
Joined September 2019
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My article on Clement Attlee and the cinema at Chequers has just been published Open Access in the latest volume of Screen.
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My article about Harold Blackburn's work as technical advisor on The Master of Bankdam is out! How was the International Wool Secretariat involved? Could Dennis Price do a Yorkshire accent? And who was the mysterious Winkle? All is revealed!
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Sound the new article klaxon again! My @studiotec_proj piece on the death and afterlife of Denham film studios is now available for FREE in Industrial Archaeology Review.
Features a wonderful picture of a pig in a mail coach and my usual erudite musings.
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Sound the new article klaxon! My latest piece for @studiotec_proj, on detective novels set in interwar British film studios, is now available in the Journal of British Cinema and Television. Come for the murders, stay for the analysis.
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An important date in, British studio history.
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It's our 88th anniversary today - that's nearly nine decades of storytelling! #OnThisDay in 1936 Pinewood opened its gates and since then we have welcomed thousands of filmmakers onto the lot. Here’s to many more years of cinematic excellence #ShotAtPinewood
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More @studiotec_proj fabulousness from m'colleague @Eleanor_Halsall! Come for the detailed history of the Tonkreuz, stay for the wonderful illustrations!
I've written about Germany's first dedicated sound film studio, the Tonkreuz as part of our #Studiotec project @stud
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The new Charles III coins remind me of the Edward VIII 'royal animals' designs proposed to the Mint by Harold Wilson Parker. These were to include stags, swans and sturgeons - all animals associated with the Crown.
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Is it a coincidence that my blog on a film starring animals from London Zoo appears at the same time as Banksy's London Zoo series?
Am I Banksy? I'm not saying that I am. But I'm also not saying that I'm not.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy reading about Ming the panda's film fame.
Read all about when the 'panda craze' hit the studios in Richard Farmer's latest STUDIOTEC post!
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This sequence from the 1943 film Thursday's Child was shot in the canteen at Welwyn Studios.
Might be of interest to @ReelStreets
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The winning article is absolutely brilliant. Congratulations, @drmelaniebell!
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Screen Essay Award 2023 is Melanie Bell, with her article Feminist histories of costuming film: Gordon Conway, 1930s British cinema and the collaborative world of Mayfair sewing, Screen (64:2), Summer 2023.
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Clement Attlee was admired for being able to relax, and made sure to spend time with his family. The psychological wellbeing afforded by switching off, exercising (tennis, golf, billiards), reading, going to theatre and sports events, made him more productive and a better leader.
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Lots of noise about Bucks council's decision to reject an application to build a new studio in a disused quarry (tinyurl.com/3a4c72th). English councils have a long history of this sort of thing, as I show in my article on Esher's unbuilt film studios: tinyurl.com/29x9yjva
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More news about potential new studios. Will there need to be a sequel to @studiotec_proj to account for recent and future changes to the spaces of film production?
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On this day in 1941, clothes rationing was introduced by the British government in an attempt to reduce clothing consumption by approximately one third. The impact on individuals was immediate. British film producers were affected, too. Their story is less well known. 🧵
More film-studio buildings in films: the stables of the Fisheries estate, used for a time as Denham Studios' cutting rooms and seen here in the BBC's The Epic That Never Was (1965), appearing as a concentration camp in Pimpernel Smith (1941).
Might be of interest to @ReelStreets
