formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
Our cheeky 60p Tesco iceberg outlasted Liz Truss’ time as PM and now the video of it – which made headlines around the world – is being immortalised in the British Film Institute’s National Archive. Source: Truth behind bizarre vegetable … Continued
American producers the Danziger brothers established a hive of brisk, low-budget genre movies and cult TV in 1950s Britain. Son of a Stranger was a crime melodrama that tapped into the current vogue for angry young men. Source: Son of … Continued
To celebrate the 90th anniversary of the National Film Library, now called the BFI National Archive, we explore the first decade of the archive’s existence and the impact that World War II had on its work. Source: How to build … Continued
The 21-minute video is an episode of Rank’s This Modern Age, an informative ‘cinemagazine’ or short documentary, which ran from 1946-51. This particular video was made in 1948. Source: Life in post-war Lancashire mills captured in archive footage | Bury … Continued