formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
In the first of a new series on early cinema, we celebrate the landmark year of 1915, when the industry as we know it was born. Plus, five films from 1915 to watch (which aren’t Birth of a Nation) Source: … Continued
AVAILABLE NOW A new book that looks at the developments of motion picture film technology from a British perspective from 1895 to 2015.
Before the digital revolution hit the movie industry, the projector used in movie theaters was an evolution of the Phantoscope, developed by Charles Francis Jenkins, who was born nearly 150 years ago on Saturday. Source: 150 years on, meet the … Continued
Last week we popped into the Regent Street Cinema, the historic central London venue restored to its former glory and newly reopened, to talk to programmer Shira Macleod about her vision for the cinema and its programme. Source: The birthplace … Continued
A trip to the cinema is not always worthy of a podcast, but the Regent Street Cinema in the West End of London is a little bit special. I first visited this cinema in October 2014, when it was still … Continued
It was an afternoon in late February of 1896 that 54 passersby sat in a small theatre on Regent Street. There was little to suggest to this audience, many of whom had wandered in from the street, that for the … Continued