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World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
http://www.girona.cat/sgdap/cat/patrimoni_audiovisual October 27th is designated World Day for Audiovisual Heritage by UNESCO. Had we enterprise enough and time, the Bioscope would have produced its...
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Archive fever
http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid Time for another research resource, and this looks like a major one. ArchiveGrid, still in beta form, aims to be a gateway to the world’s archives. It has been...
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New York, New York
A rare photograph showing the interior of a film business preview theatre, at the offices of American Cinephone Co., 124 East 25th Street, NYC, in 1910, from the MCNY Collections Portal Now here’s an...
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The British Newspaper Archive
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk As regular readers will know, we like to keep an eye on digitised newspapers of a general nature, as well as digitised film journals. Newspapers are where...
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Pathé and time
http://www.britishpathe.com (showing timeline option) We return from our antipodean adventures with a number of developments in the silent film world to tell you about, the first of which is British...
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The Hays code
Will H. Hays c.1921, from the Library of Congress Meet William Harrison Hays, chairman of the Republican National Committee, then U.S. Postmaster General, then president of the Motion Picture...
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Elephant’s graveyard
http://www.hathitrust.org I’m not sure why the Bioscope hasn’t written anything on the Hathi Trust before now. It is one of the largest repositories of digitised written content available, and with...
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Lost sites
The Wayback Machine page for The Silent Film Bookshelf We’ve been having a bit of a spring clean at New Bioscope Towers. We know that one of the features of the site that people seems to value is the...
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So, how has the digital revolution been for you?
Domitor conference taking place at the University of Brighton I’m taking part in a panel at the Domitor conference (Domitor being the international body for the study of early cinema, whose biennial...
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The art of timing
http://www.cinemetrics.lv Measurement is fundamental to film. In the early days of the medium, films were priced by the foot, with the content of little consequence unless it was coloured or featured...
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