Past Events Archive

Famous names and colourful anecdotes from a career spanning seven decades + films about the heyday of Lime Grove Studios.

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A group of astronauts set out to stop a giant asteroid on a collision course with the planet Earth.

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How Chaplin's film career was shaped by a childhood immersed in music hall. A fascinating perspective on Chaplin's genius from film historian Barry Anthony.

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Exhilarating thriller/romance + talk with Jon Davies.

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Starting out in comics, glamour magazines and 'nudie' shorts, Miller's 1960s exploitation films included West End Jungle and London in the Raw, and he produced The Blood Beast Terror and Witchfinder General.

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Colour first excited cinema audiences in the earliest days of Edison and Melies, but the path to its total adoption was not straightforward. Film historian Joel Finler discusses the interrelationships between the studios, the producers, the directors and the stars in this fascinating and highly illustrated talk.

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Writer, broadcaster and Disney historian, Brian Sibley celebrates Walt Disney’s first feature length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, on the 75th anniversary of the movie’s general release in Britain.

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