The Angel cinema in Islington, 1917
Hot on the heels of that last post on the East Finchley Phoenix comes news of a one-day event at Birkbeck College on London’s screen history. Organised by the University of London Screen Studies Group, in association with the London Screen Studies Centre, Birkbeck College and Film Studies journal, the event on Friday 14 March brings together a range of recent work on London’s heritage of film production and particularly reception. Here’s the programme:
London Screen History
Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1
9.30–18.00 Lecture Theatre B33
- Ian Christie: Introduction
- Michele Daniels: The Coming of Talking Films to London, 1928-29
- Jude Cowan: ‘The First Film Studios at Ealing: Warwick Trading Company 1907-1909 and Barker Motion Photography 1909-1918’
- Pierluigi Ercole: ‘Little Italy on the brink: London Italians and War Films, 1915-1918’
11.00-11.30 tea and coffee
- Brigitte Flickinger (Heidelberg): ‘Living and leisure: Cinema-going in London in the 1910s and 1920s – a view from outside’
- Luke McKernan (British Library): ‘Children’s cinemagoing in London before WW1’
13.00-14.00 Lunch
- Charlotte Brunsdon (Warwick): ‘Shaping the Cinematic City: Three London Journeys’
15.00
- Toby Haggith: Early London housing films
- Angela English, Jenny Davison: ‘Their Past Your Future and working with London community groups’
- Roland-Francois Lack: ‘Still Point of the Turning World: Piccadilly Circus in Film’
16.30-17.00 Tea and coffee
- John Sedgwick (London Metropolitan): ‘The commercial significance of London’s West End cinemas’
- Richard Gray (CTA): ‘London’s cinema buildings’
The programme has been published a bit late in the day, but it’s a terrific line-up (your humble scribe notwithstanding), so do come along (there’s a small charge for tea and coffee) and see if we can get the audience to outnumber the speakers, at least by a little bit.
The Bioscope 