Another 'animal in the studio' story. This one from 1930

Booking now open for the British Silent Film Festival Symposium King's College London on 17th May. Details and link to booking page here atthepictures.photo.blog/2024/04/17/bri…

Our online project exhibition is now live! It features various curios we've discovered during the course of our research, including a short piece by me on how Shepperton studios almost acquired the right to appoint vicars to its local church. But didn't.

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Any Godard heads around? The first part of Le Mépris is generally said to be filmed at Cinecitta' (including by Colin MacCabe in his JLG biog). But it doesn't look like Cinecitta'! Anyone know where it was shot?

Postcards and spider-web machinery, to stamps and cigarette cards...our STUDIOTEC exhibition tab is now here!
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New from STUDIOTEC ... visit our virtual exhibition here!
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Yay! Love a hard copy and really looking forward to reading this 🙌

Ooh! A hard copy of the new Screen Journal arrived today. Features my article on clothes rationing and film production in wartime Britain.

But don't worry folks, the online version is still available Open Access: academic.oup.com/screen/article…

The Spring issue of Screen is now online! academic.oup.com/screen/issue/6…

Richard Farmer melanie bell studiotecproject How wonderful! I can’t wait to read this

Hire your wedding dress here! Another great article from Richard Farmer 'Bridal Outfits from the Heart of Filmland’: Clothes Rationing, Wartime Film Production and Gainsborough Pictures’ Studio Hire Service euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.33…
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My new studiotecproject article, which tells how gowns from Gainsborough Pictures' costume department were hired out for use as wedding dresses by hundreds of British brides in the 1940s, has been published in the Journal of British Cinema and Television

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Exciting package arrived today!!

Tomorrow at #BAFTSS2024 ! As part of the studiotecproject panel on leisure, time and wellbeing in the studio I'll be talking about sports and social clubs in the British film industry.

Lyndsay Townsend J D H Doveton JillCraigieproject Leeds Animation melanie bell Dr Llewella Chapman Dr MaoHui Deng Nelson Correia BAFTSS Archives and Archival Methods SIG Zoë Viney Burgess Lauren Houlton Southall Black Sisters In the first session of Fri 05/04, Panel G2 - 'Leisure, Time and Wellbeing in the Studio' the studiotecproject gang offers two peeks behind the curtains of British film studios, with Richard Farmer on their sports and social clubs and Sarah Street on the hazards of studio work.

Another great entry! i love these blogs from one of my favourite projects!

Find out about getting plastered in British studios...
The latest studiotecproject blog from Richard Farmer
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A 250-kilogram ersatz Eros, Technicolor bananas and Glynis Johns' birthday cake all feature in my new studiotecproject blog on plaster work in British studios. Enjoy!

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