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Shakespeare on screen
Here’s news of a conference on Shakespeare and film which includes silent Shakespeare in its call for papers – though you’ll have to hurry, as the deadline is 28 August. The conference takes place at...
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Viewing scarlet maple leaves
Ichikawa Danjuro IX (right) and Onoe Kikugoro V in Momiji-gari (Viewing Scarlet Maple Leaves), filmed by Shibata Tsunekichi in November 1899 This is an extraordinary image. It’s a Japanese postcard...
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Lives in film no. 3 – Dan Leno
Dan Leno, from http://www.rfwilmut.clara.net/musichll/xleno.html In 1921 Charlie Chaplin returned home to Britain to an ecstatic welcome. Touring his old London haunts, however, he found one...
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Tied to the tracks
I’m grateful to Bioscope regular Penfold for bringing this delightful short animation by Aidan McAteer to my attention. It is funny, stylish, and will have particular resonance for any weekend train...
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Stage to screen
Members of the Society for Theatre Research at the Art Worker’s Guild A couple of days ago I was fortunate to attend Viewing the Victorian Stage on 20th Century Film, an event organised by the Society...
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Performing arts
The Tempest (UK 1908), based on Shakespeare’s play, directed by Percy Stow Apologies for the intermittent service, folks – it’s been a bit busy, and the Bioscope has been rather set to one side,...
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Female Hamlet
Asta Nielsen in Hamlet (1921) The second notable Edition Filmmuseum DVD release to tell you about is Hamlet & Die Filmprimadonna, to be issued on 10 June 2011. It was 2009 when the DVD label first...
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It’s a miracle!
A newspaper illustration of the Olympia stage production of The Miracle A few years ago – specifically in 2008 and 2009 – you may recall that we ran the Bioscope Festival of Lost Films. It was a droll...
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Staging illusions
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sccs/activities/stagingillusion Staging Illusion: Digital and Cultural Fantasy is a two-day conference taking place 8-9 December 2011 at the University of Sussex, whose themes,...
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Films from the fens
Stencil colour film of Blickling Hall, Norfolk, from Eve and Everybody’s Film Review (1929) A significant release of archive films online, many of them silent, was announced recently. The East Anglian...
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