This a guide to the various subject series on The Bioscope, with links to the individual posts.

The Bioscope Festival of Lost Films 2008
A virtual festival of films that are – so far as is known – no more

Day 1: A Study in Scarlet (1914) and The Great European War (1914)
Day 2: Ein Sommernachtstraum (1925) and Hamlet (1907)
Day 3: Human Wreckage (1923) and Dorian Gray (1913)
Day 4: The Mountain Eagle (1926) and Number 13 (1922)
Day 5: Drakula halála (1921) and Life Without Soul (1915)
Footnotes to the Festival

The Bioscope Festival of Lost Films 2009
More lost films

Day 1 – War Brides (1916) and Kiddies in the Ruins (1918)
Day 2 – The Land of Mystery (1920) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1915)
Day 3 – The Jeffries-Sharkey Fight (1899) and The Battle of Jeffries and Sharkey for Championship of the World (1899)
Day 4 – Das Mirakel (1912) and Das Mirakel (1912)
Day 5 – With apologies…
Footnotes to the Festival

The Bioscope Guide to… [ongoing]
Reference guides to national cinema histories

China
Italy
South Africa

The Bioscope interviews … [ongoing]
Interviews with silent film experts

Matthew Solomon

Colourful stories [ongoing]
The history of colour cinematography in the silent era

Part 1: James Clerk Maxwell and the first colour photograph
Part 2: The Kromskop
Part 3: The first patent for colour cinematography, in 1897
Part 4: The Lee and Turner three-colour system, patented in 1899
Part 5: The Brighton School
Part 6: Inventing Kinemacolor
Part 7: Reviving Kinemacolor
Part 8: Hand-painted colour
Part 9: The Pathé stencil colour system
Part 10: First public exhibition of natural colour motion pictures
Part 11: Kinemacolor in America
Part 12: Tinting and toning
Part 13: The end of Kinemacolor
Part 14: Gaumont Chronochrome

From 1896 to 1926
The memoirs of British film distributor Edward G. Turner

Part 1: The first film shows
Part 2: Popular film titles of the 1890s
Part 3: Pitching the product to the working classes
Part 4: Exhibition in the 1890s and the Bazar de la charité fire
Part 5: LCC fire regulations and the cinematograph business
Part 6: The hiring business and establishing the Walturdaw name
Part 7: Developing fireproof equipment
Part 8: Flicker Alley and the rise of the exclusive film.
Part 9: Business during World War One and into the 1920s

How to Run a Picture Theatre
Extracts from a c.1912 guide to running your own cinema

Part 1: Location, location, location
Part 2: The building
Part 3: The lobby and the waiting room
Part 4: The auditorium
Part 5: The operating chamber and projectionist
Part 6: Staff
Part 7: Choosing the programme
Part 8: Obtaining a licence

Lives in film [ongoing]
How the motion picture recorded and influenced some notable individuals

No 1. Alfred Dreyfus: part 1 – the films of Georges Méliès; part 2 – the films of Biograph and Pathé; part 3 – filmography
No. 2 – T.E. Lawrence
No. 3 – Dan Leno
No. 4 – Jack Johnson
No. 5 – Niranjan Pal

Lost and found [ongoing]
Tales of discovery of lost films and film collections

No. 1: Joseph Joye
No. 2: The Dawson City collection
No. 3: The 4 Devils and Bardelys the Magnificent
No. 4: The Henville collection

Pen and pictures [ongoing]
Literary figures and their engagement with silent films

No. 1 – Thomas Hardy
No. 2 – The most popular authors, 1896-1915
No. 3 – J.M. Barrie
No. 4 – Evelyn Waugh
No. 5 – John Buchan
No. 6 – George Bernard Shaw
No. 7 – Leo Tolstoy
No. 8 – Arthur Conan Doyle + filmography
No. 9 – The cinema novel

Pordenone diary 2007
Reports on the 2007 Pordenone silent film festival

Day one: The Verdi and Dream Street
Day two: Starewitch, Clair and Wege Zu Kraft und Schönheit
Day three: D.W. Griffith and the death of cinema
Day four: Das Alte Gesetz and Annie Bos
Day five: Films from the Bible lands

Pordenone diary 2008
Reports on the 2008 Pordenone silent film festival

Day one – Sparrows
Day two – Sally of the Sawdust, His Nibs and the earthquake at Messina
Day three – Jacques Feyder and The Sorrows of Satan
Day four – Keystone, Dickson and Ed’s Co-ed
Day five – Griffith, The Watermelon Patch and Little Old New York
Day six – Bardelys the Magnificent, Brighton and Laila
Day seven – Living London, Alexander Shiryaev and Michael Nyman

Pordenone diary 2009
Reports on the 2009 Pordenone silent film festival

Day one – The Merry Widow
Day two – Der Hund Von Baskerville, Ce Cochon De Morin, Daddy
Day three – The Ten Commandments, Carmen
Day four – Wenn Das Herz in Hass Ergluht, Dom Na Trubnoi
Day five – A Canine Sherlock Holmes, Der Golem
Day six – The Rose of Rhodesia, Justice d’Abord, A Scandal in Bohemia
Day seven – The Wheels of Chance, J’Accuse, Ein Madel und Drei Clowns
Day eight – The Master of the House, The Final Problem

Pordenone diary 2010
Reports on the 2010 Pordenone silent film festival

Day one – Japanese Girls at the Harbour
Day two – Seven Seas, Rituaes e festas Bororo, Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück, Drifters
Day three – Love Be With Humanity, The Masks of Mer, Le Miracle des Loups
Day four – Salt for Svanetia, A Thief Catcher, Upstream, Chess Fever
Day five – Bed and Sofa, Madagascan films of 1898, Marizza, Rien Que Les Heures
Day six – Blind Justice, Shingun, The Great Art of Light and Shadow
Day seven – Why Do You Cry Youngsters?, Giuli, Corrick Collection, Robin Hood
Day eight – Young Master at University, The Ghost that Never Returns, Wings

Pordenone diary 2011
Reports on the 2011 Pordenone silent film festival

Day one – Gantsirluni, Un Amore Selvaggio, Più che la morte
Day two – Asphalt, Mantrap, Die Sklavenkönigin
Day three – Amerikanka, Chyortovo Koleso, Japanese animation
Day four – The Lady of the Dugout, Oblomok Imperii, La Voyage dans la lune, Shinel
Day five – Hintertreppe, The Force that through the Green Fire Fuels the Flower, The Circus, Khabarda
Day six – The Great White Silence, Eliso, Fiaker Nr. 13, The Canadian
Day seven – Cenere, Salomy Jane, The White Shadow
Day eight – Das Spielzeug Von Paris, South, The Wind

Slapstick, European-style
The European slapstick comedians of the pre-World War One era, produced for a Slapstick Blog-a-thon

Part 1: Cretinetti, Max, Pimple and Rigadin
Part 2: Child comedians
Part 3: Checklist of other comedians
Part 4: Les Pouics comedy troupe

Video Jukebox
Background histories to selected films freely available online

No. 1 – The Battle of the Century (1921)