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February 4, 2007 By urbanora in Bioscope, General

Welcome to The Bioscope, the place for news, information, documentation and opinion on the world of early and silent cinema.

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Welcome to The Bioscope, a blog on early and silent cinema, with an emphasis on research. The Bioscope is no longer active, but you will find here nearly 1,400 posts on all aspects of silent film published from February 2007 to August 2012

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  • Étienne-Jules Marey: Movement in Light
  • Innovating silent cinema: the papers of Hary & Roy Aitken
  • Le Cinéma Expressionniste Allemand
  • Lowell Thomas and Lawrence of Arabia
  • Scientific Movement
  • The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s

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  • Annual Buster Keaton Celebration
  • Australia's Silent Film Festival
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  • British Silent Film Festival
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  • Capitolfest
  • Cinecon
  • Cinefest
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  • Festival d’Anères
  • Forssa Silent Film Festival
  • Giornate del Cinema Muto (Pordenone)
  • Il Cinema Ritrovato (Bologna)
  • Jornada Brasileira de Cinema Silencioso
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  • Sound of Silent Film Festival
  • Strade del Cinema
  • Stummfilmfestivals
  • StummFilmMusikTage Erlangen
  • The Silent Clowns
  • Toronto Silent Film Festival
  • Toronto Urban Film Festival

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  • Europa Film Treasures
  • FIAF
  • Film Archives UK
  • filmarchives online
  • Moving Image Collections
  • Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers

General

  • Audiovisual Heritage
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  • Bristol Silents
  • CineGraph
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  • EarlyCinema.com
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  • Moving Image Source
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  • Silent Films Wiki
  • Silent London
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  • The Missing Link
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  • Welcome to Silent Movies
  • Women Film Pioneers Project
  • WSBC (Women and British Silent Cinema)

Modern silents

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  • Sound of Silent Film Festival
  • Storyfarm
  • Toronto Urban Film Festival
  • Wisconsin Bioscope

Museums

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  • Cinémathèque Française
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  • deutsches filmmuseum
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  • Museo Nazionale del Cinema
  • Museu del Cinema
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  • National Media Museum
  • Norman Studios Silent Film Museum
  • Smithsonian Institution

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  • Silent Film Music (Ben Model)
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  • The Originals
  • Timothy Brock
  • Vox Lumiere

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  • Domitor
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  • GRAFICS
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  • Birt Acres
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  • The Impossible Cameras

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  • Sound and Vision
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