This program was compiled in 2015 by the British Film Institute National Archive from their collections Excerpts from documentaries, newsreels, travelogues, home movies, and missionary films shot by pros and amateurs alike chart the geography and culture of pre-revolutionary China from the … [Read more...] about Around China with a Movie Camera: A Journey from Beijing to Shanghai (1900–1948)
The Amazing Charley Bowers
A WILD ROOMER, USA, 1926 Charley, a brilliant inventor, has forty-eight hours to make a convincing demonstration of his newest machine in order to collect an inheritance from his father. NOW YOU TELL ONE, USA, 1926 The liars’ club meets to vote on who can tell the most unbelievable story. Along … [Read more...] about The Amazing Charley Bowers
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Paul Remark was born a German Catholic in Osnabruck in 1898 and conscripted into the army when he was eighteen. In 1917, he saw a month’s action on the Western Front before being so wounded by shrapnel he was invalided out. Thereafter, he studied to be a teacher and started writing. His first … [Read more...] about All Quiet on the Western Front
Amazing Tales from the Archives 2015
Presenters: Serge Bromberg, Robert Byrne, Bryony Dixon, Jennifer Miko DETECTING SHERLOCK Preservationist and president of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival board of directors, Robert Byrne has been collaborating with the Cinémathèque Française on restoring William Gillette’s Sherlock … [Read more...] about Amazing Tales from the Archives 2015