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Bioscope Newsreel no. 15
Photograph taken filming of Hide and Seek, Detectives (1918): (L-R) unknown, Tom Kennedy, Ben Turpin, Charles ‘Heinie’ Conklin, Eddie Cline, and Marie Prevost. From Steve Rydzewski (see...
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Bioscope Newsreel no. 18
The Ten Commandments (1923), from DVD Talk Chinese American The Chinese Film Forum UK is a network based in Manchester, UK that exists for the research and promotion of transnational Chinese film. It...
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Bioscope Newsreel no. 20
Well, it’s all been happening in the land of the silents. Here’s your latest edition of the Bioscope Newsreel, rounding up some of the news stories from the week, starting with what might just turn...
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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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Bioscope Newsreel no. 24
Jean Dujardin and Uggy share the acting honours in The Artist Things are still unsettled here at New Bioscope Towers, what with so much stuff still in boxes and electrical matters needing to be sorted...
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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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Chaplin in Babylon
Last year saw the appearance of a new silent film festival, the StummfilmLIVEfestival put on by the Babylon Kino cinema in Berlin, a 1929 cinema with original Art Deco screen and refurbished original...
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Importing Asta
Asta Nilesen, from http://deutsches-filminstitut.de Over 27 to 29 September 2011 the Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt, and Media Studies, University of Trier are organising an international...
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Bioscope Newsreel no. 32
Carla Laemmle and Gary Busey, from Hollywood Reporter Here in the scriptorium at New Bioscope Towers we’re setting the staff to transcribing our scarcely decipherable notes made in the dark (of...
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Looking back on 2011
News in 2011, clockwise from top left: The White Shadow, The Artist, A Trip to the Moon in colour, Brides of Sulu And so we come to the end of another year, and for the Bioscope it is time to look...
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