Join British film industry treasure, and honorary Member of the Guild of British Camera technicians, Angela Allen MBE, in conversation with film historian Tony Sloman. Angela worked on hundreds of films for over 50 years and trained as a script supervisor (formerly known as Continuity Girl) at the Korda Studios, working on The Third Man.
Past Events Archive
A Conversation with Angela Allen
Thu 4 Nov 2010 @ 19:30 · Events
Clapperboard: Graham Murray
Thu 21 Oct 2010 @ 19:30 · Events
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, film historian Graham Murray devised, wrote and compiled over 500 episodes of Granada Television’s legendary weekly programme Clapperboard. Presented by Chris Kelly, the series covered all aspects of filmmaking and cinema history. Graham will talk about the making of the programme and present a 45-minute compilation of the show’s highlights.
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Home Movie Day 2010
Sat 16 Oct 2010 @ 11:00 · Events
The Cinema Museum is proud once again to be the London host for the annual Home Movie Day, at which the public can bring their home movies (e.g. on super 8, 8mm, 9.5mm or 16mm) for inspection by a trained archivist.
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Julie Harris
Thu 7 Oct 2010 @ 19:30 · Events
Award-winning costume designer, Julie Harris, talks to BFI fiction curator Jo Botting about a glittering career that began in 1947 at Gainsborough Films and continued until her retirement in 1991. Julie worked on over seventy films and won an Oscar for Darling and a BAFTA for The Wrong Box.
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Chaplin’s London in Hollywood
Wed 22 Sep 2010 @ 19:30 · Events
A hundred years ago on this very day, Chaplin left England for America. Film historian David Trigg marks this event with a screening of The Immigrant, and shows, with extracts from his other films, how in Hollywood Chaplin searched for suitable locations and built sets based on his South London childhood.
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Grand Film Memorabilia Fair & Bazaar
Sat 18 Sep - Sun 19 Sep 2010 · Events
To be opened by a special celebrity guest, the event will feature dealers’ tables selling a wide range of stills, posters, dvds, books, ephemera and films of all gauges. You will also have the chance to hear film industry guests and speak to them afterwards.
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The Silent Majority: Glenn Mitchell
Sat 11 Sep 2010 @ 19:30 · Events
Glenn Mitchell, acclaimed author of The A-Z of Silent Film Comedy, looks beyond Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd to some overlooked comic heroes from the silent era. This fascinating session is illustrated with clips and films of these neglected geniuses at work.
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London in the Hopfields
Wed 8 Sep 2010 @ 19:30 · Events
A highly acclaimed presentation of life in the hopfields of Kent by film historian Barry Littlechild. The programme will include newsreels and films from the 1920s and 1930s along with a recently rediscovered drama from the 1950s set in the hopfields, and starring many British actors who went on to be household names.
