Mentee applications for our Film London Connect Mentoring Programme are now open!
Deadline: Wednesday 4 June at 5pm.
The programme will run from June 2025 - January 2026.
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Join us for 'West Sussex Unwrapped: West Sussex on the Home Front, 1939-1945' to explore photos and documents on evacuation, rationing, air raids from the @WestSussexRO and Home Guard films from our collection.
7pm, 16 June 2025, Online.
Free tickets: rb.gy/5fu73z
NEW VACANCY
We are looking for a Digitisation Trainee to join the London's Screen Archives team on a fixed term contract basis. This is a rare trainee opportunity to learn screen heritage and digitisation skills on the job.
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Nice to welcome Shalyn Claggett Professor of English @msstate uni researching British narrative magic lantern slide sets accessing our series of pre-mass-produced slides found in the Hecht collection here in the School of Art & Media at @uniofbrighton#magiclantern
ALT characterful hand-painted wooden sliders on a light box
Nice to be watching and selecting archive films of #ShorehamBySea for @figmentarts Port Stories project funded by @HistoricEngland Everyday Heritage grant programme. For more info : rb.gy/43u4hr. (prepared by Constance-year ten work experience)
We are delighted to announce the Stephen Herbert Award for 2025. The award is for researchers and practitioners interested in moving images and optical media pre-1918 and you can find out more below. Closing date 19th May. @MagicLanternSocbdcmuseum.org.uk/news/the-st…
Screening all week @fabrica Brighton on-street window showcase - 'Protest and Demonstration' the FP young film programmers archive film response to 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' 2022, dir Laura Poitas, screening 20th March.
Info and tickets: fabrica.org.uk/.../all-the-b… PWYC
We are super excited to announce a £85,575 grant from @HeritageFundUK to deliver our ‘Capturing Brighton’s last wartime veterans project’. Thank you @HeritageFundUK & National Lottery players for making this possible. Find out more about the project here: takeshelter.org.uk
Just as I'm researching our Old Curiosity Shop magic lantern slides it's interesting to think about other Dickens inspired content in our collection. Little Dorrit filmed in Shoreham in 1920, Broadstairs Dickens Festival in 1959. #OnThisDay Charles Dickens was born in 1812.
Wonderful! James Williamson's filmmaking story brought vividly to life once again in this fascinating podcast - thank you Frank Gray.
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Cinéclub Podcast #13 is a conversation w/ film historian Frank Gray on the early Hove filmmaker, James Williamson, whose films pioneered continuity editing, chase sequences, and fast-paced action.
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It's very good to see that the News on Screen database of British newsreels and cinemagazines has undergone a redesign by @LearnonScreen and looks as useful and essential as ever learningonscreen.ac.uk/newso…
Nice start to 2025 with a screening @TheKeepArchives: Picturing Pride: LGBTQ short-form archive films hosted by Atheena Frissell. See films collected as part of 'Our Screen Heritage' @HeritageFundUK 2021-3 SASE project. 7 Feb, 1-4pm free tix here: shorturl.at/CXxHo
102 years ago (!) the Progress Film Co on Shoreham Beach announced their latest productions. Hear all about it from Gillian Gregg (granddaughter of the founder Frank E Spring, daughter of Kathleen Spring - aka Mavis Clare on screen)
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Pandemic Photo Essay exhibition by Derrick Bradfield on at Jubilee Library, Brighton this week til Sat showing LGBTQIA venues during lockdown March 2021, this essay captures an important time in our recent history.
Essay now live on our website here: screenarchive.brighton.ac.uk…