Series
This a guide to the various subject series on The Bioscope, with links to the individual posts.
The Bioscope Festival of Lost Films
A virtual festival of films that are - so far as is known - no more
Day 1: A Study in Scarlet (1914) and The Great European War (1914)
Day 2: Ein Sommernachtstraum (1925) and Hamlet (1907)
Day 3: Human Wreckage (1923) and Dorian Gray (1913)
Day 4: The Mountain Eagle (1926) and Number 13 (1922)
Day 5: Drakula halála (1921) and Life Without Soul (1915)
Footnotes to the Festival
Colourful stories [ongoing]
The history of colour cinematography in the silent era
Part 1: James Clerk Maxwell and the first colour photograph
Part 2: The Kromskop
Part 3: The first patent for colour cinematography, in 1897
Part 4: The Lee and Turner three-colour system, patented in 1899
Part 5: The Brighton School
Part 6: Inventing Kinemacolor
Part 7: Reviving Kinemacolor
Part 8: Hand-painted colour
Part 9: The Pathé stencil colour system
Part 10: First public exhibition of natural colour motion pictures
Part 11: Kinemacolor in America
Part 12: Tinting and toning
From 1896 to 1926
The memoirs of British film distributor Edward G. Turner
Part 1: The first film shows
Part 2: Popular film titles of the 1890s
Part 3: Pitching the product to the working classes
Part 4: Exhibition in the 1890s and the Bazar de la charité fire
Part 5: LCC fire regulations and the cinematograph business
Part 6: The hiring business and establishing the Walturdaw name
Part 7: Developing fireproof equipment
Part 8: Flicker Alley and the rise of the exclusive film.
Part 9: Business during World War One and into the 1920s
How to Run a Picture Theatre
Extracts from a c.1912 guide to running your own cinema
Part 1: Location, location, location
Part 2: The building
Part 3: The lobby and the waiting room
Part 4: The auditorium
Part 5: The operating chamber and projectionist
Part 6: Staff
Part 7: Choosing the programme
Part 8: Obtaining a licence
Lost and found [ongoing]
Tales of discovery of lost films and film collections
No. 1: Joseph Joye
No. 2: The Dawson City collection
No. 3: The 4 Devils and Bardelys the Magnificent
No. 4: The Henville collection
Pen and pictures [ongoing]
Literary figures and their engagement with silent films
No. 1 - Thomas Hardy
No. 2 - The most popular authors, 1896-1915
No. 3 - J.M. Barrie
No. 4 - Evelyn Waugh
Pordenone diary
Reports on the 2007 Pordenone silent film festival
Day one: The Verdi and Dream Street
Day two: Starewitch, Clair and Wege Zu Kraft und Schönheit
Day three: D.W. Griffith and the death of cinema
Day four: Das Alte Gesetz and Annie Bos
Day five: Films from the Bible lands
Slapstick, European-style
The European slapstick comedians of the pre-World War One era, produced for a Slapstick Blog-a-thon
Part 1: Cretinetti, Max, Pimple and Rigadin
Part 2: Child comedians
Part 3: Checklist of other comedians
Part 4: Les Pouics comedy troupe
