Comments on: Brian Coe 1930-2007 http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/brian-coe-1930-2007/ Reporting on the world of early and silent cinema Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:50:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: urbanora http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/brian-coe-1930-2007/#comment-3429 urbanora Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:10:38 +0000 http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/brian-coe-1930-2007/#comment-3429 Thank you Neil - a fine tribute. Luke Thank you Neil - a fine tribute.

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]]> By: Neil Brand http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/brian-coe-1930-2007/#comment-3427 Neil Brand Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:46:28 +0000 http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/brian-coe-1930-2007/#comment-3427 I was really sorry to read of Brian's death on the Bioscope today - he was the reason I ended up talking about silent films as he was technically overseeing special events at MOMI in my years at the NFT and first asked me to do a show - eventually I did five or six. He always took a vast amount of trouble over his presentations and was never happier than when he had shows in the MOMI cinema which involved about four different film-format projectors in the auditorium (usually plus Magic Lantern) to and from which he would flit noiselessly (despite his size) so that the image always hit the screen right on cue, sharp as a pin and with almost no preamble. I seem to remember he was particularly responsible with Stephen Herbert for the Home Movie days which were phenomenally popular and introduced me and hundreds of others to the joy of amateur film as social document. He was a major developer of the wide educational possibilities of early film and a lovely man. I was really sorry to read of Brian’s death on the Bioscope today - he was the reason I ended up talking about silent films as he was technically overseeing special events at MOMI in my years at the NFT and first asked me to do a show - eventually I did five or six. He always took a vast amount of trouble over his presentations and was never happier than when he had shows in the MOMI cinema which involved about four different film-format projectors in the auditorium (usually plus Magic Lantern) to and from which he would flit noiselessly (despite his size) so that the image always hit the screen right on cue, sharp as a pin and with almost no preamble. I seem to remember he was particularly responsible with Stephen Herbert for the Home Movie days which were phenomenally popular and introduced me and hundreds of others to the joy of amateur film as social document. He was a major developer of the wide educational possibilities of early film and a lovely man.

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