Publications

Books

The British Silent Film Festival has produced several volumes of essays associated with particular editions of the Festival.

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Pimple, Pranks and Pratfalls: British Film Comedy Before 1930

 

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The Showman, the Spectacle and the Two-minute Silence.

 

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Scene Stealing: Sources for British Cinema beofre 1930 

 

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Crossing the Pond: Anglo American Film Relations before 1930

 

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Picture Perfect: Landscape and Place and Travel in British Cinema before 1930

 

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British Silent Film DVD’s

Ever increasing numbers of silents films are available on DVD and Blu-Ray – a very good round up of what’s available is on Bioscope (see links)

The BFI publishes DVD’s of world cinema with a substantial section on early and silent cinema

It also produces DVD’s from the collections of the BFI National Archive the world’s largest collection of British Silent Cinema.

BFI DVD publications of British  Silent Cinema

 

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