Thousands of unseen films digitised and made available online including world’s earliest home movies; new film commissioned from Penny Woolcock.
The BFI (British Film Institute) has today launched Britain on Film, an archive-based initiative through which thousands of unseen films have been digitised and will be made available for free to the public on the BFI Player platform.
By 2017, the BFI aims to have digitised 10,000 film and TV titles from 1895 to the present day, backed by National Lottery funding and the support of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
These include the world’s earliest home movies from 1902, The Passmore Family Collection - 10 films of the family on holiday in Bognor Regis and The Isle of Wight and at home in London.
Britain On Film also includes travelogues, tourism films, public information docs, newsreels, a few feature films and a host of other material
What unites all the footage - taken from the BFI National Archive and more...
The BFI (British Film Institute) has today launched Britain on Film, an archive-based initiative through which thousands of unseen films have been digitised and will be made available for free to the public on the BFI Player platform.
By 2017, the BFI aims to have digitised 10,000 film and TV titles from 1895 to the present day, backed by National Lottery funding and the support of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
These include the world’s earliest home movies from 1902, The Passmore Family Collection - 10 films of the family on holiday in Bognor Regis and The Isle of Wight and at home in London.
Britain On Film also includes travelogues, tourism films, public information docs, newsreels, a few feature films and a host of other material
What unites all the footage - taken from the BFI National Archive and more...
- 7/7/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
I'm old, and I like it that way. I don't know anybody who was more interesting when they were younger. Even when I was little I would go and sit with the old folks, because they told the best stories. I'm still drawn to the old stories, and my darling husband has just introduced me to Gilgamesh.
No, he's not a Smurf. Gilgamesh is the greatest hero of the ancient world. He was a king, 2/3 god and 1/3 man. Stories of Gilgamesh were popular with the ancient Sumerians 5000 years ago. They were popular with the ancient Babylonians, too. Cuneiform tablets of the Gilgamesh stories were found in the ruins of Nineveh in the middle of the 19th century. Many scholarly translations have been made. This version by Herbert Mason is not a complete translation, but is a good introduction to the stories and is written in free verse.
I'm really surprised...
No, he's not a Smurf. Gilgamesh is the greatest hero of the ancient world. He was a king, 2/3 god and 1/3 man. Stories of Gilgamesh were popular with the ancient Sumerians 5000 years ago. They were popular with the ancient Babylonians, too. Cuneiform tablets of the Gilgamesh stories were found in the ruins of Nineveh in the middle of the 19th century. Many scholarly translations have been made. This version by Herbert Mason is not a complete translation, but is a good introduction to the stories and is written in free verse.
I'm really surprised...
- 7/26/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
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