Amazing Tales from the Archives
Live music by Stephen Horne
Our Amazing Tales program began in 2006 as a way to highlight the importance of film preservation and to provide insight into the remarkable work done by film archives around the world. Since then it has become one of the most highly anticipated programs in the festival. And it’s free!
BFI National Archive’s Bryony Dixon brings tales of Michael Powell’s start in the movies on the French Riviera where the Twenties really roared.
Author and scholar Denise Khor discusses the newly restored The Oath of the Sword from 1914, the earliest known Asian American film.
Coauthor of The Dawn of Technicolor David Pierce traces the bumpy early history of one of cinema’s most successful color processes.
Image: The Oath of the Sword (1914). Courtesy of George Eastman Museum