The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema : Early Twentieth-Century Spectacle and Melodrama
Turvey, Gerry
The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema : Early Twentieth-Century Spectacle and Melodrama - Exeter University of Exeter Press 2021 - 1 electronic resource (448 p.)
Open Access
This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through an in-depth history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company - also known as 'B&C'- in the years 1908-1916, the period when it became one of Britain's leading film producers. It provides an account of its films and personalities, and explores its production methods, business practices and policy changes. Gerry Turvey examines the range of short film genres B&C manufactured, including newsworthy topicals and comics, and series dramas, and how they often drew on the resources of urban Britain's existing popular culture - from cheap reading matter to East End melodramas. He discusses B&C's first open-air studio in East Finchley, its extensive use of location filming, and its large, state-of-the-art studio at Walthamstow. He also investigates how the films were photographed and 'staged', their developing formal properties, and how the choice of genres shifted radically over time in an attempt to seek new audiences.
Creative Commons
English
SGOE1157 9781905816651 9781905816668
10.47788/SGOE1157 doi
Cinema industry
Media studies
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
Films, cinema
United Kingdom, Great Britain
film; cinema; cinematography; media; Britain; melodrama; spectacle; history; British
The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema : Early Twentieth-Century Spectacle and Melodrama - Exeter University of Exeter Press 2021 - 1 electronic resource (448 p.)
Open Access
This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through an in-depth history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company - also known as 'B&C'- in the years 1908-1916, the period when it became one of Britain's leading film producers. It provides an account of its films and personalities, and explores its production methods, business practices and policy changes. Gerry Turvey examines the range of short film genres B&C manufactured, including newsworthy topicals and comics, and series dramas, and how they often drew on the resources of urban Britain's existing popular culture - from cheap reading matter to East End melodramas. He discusses B&C's first open-air studio in East Finchley, its extensive use of location filming, and its large, state-of-the-art studio at Walthamstow. He also investigates how the films were photographed and 'staged', their developing formal properties, and how the choice of genres shifted radically over time in an attempt to seek new audiences.
Creative Commons
English
SGOE1157 9781905816651 9781905816668
10.47788/SGOE1157 doi
Cinema industry
Media studies
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
Films, cinema
United Kingdom, Great Britain
film; cinema; cinematography; media; Britain; melodrama; spectacle; history; British