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The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema
Gerry Turvey
2021
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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.
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Keywords
- 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
- britain
- British
- British Isles
- Cinéma
- Cinema industry
- Cinematography
- Economics, finance, business & management
- Europe
- Film
- Film, TV & radio
- Films, cinema
- Geographical Qualifiers
- History
- History: earliest times to present day
- Humanities
- Industry & industrial studies
- Media
- Media Studies
- Media, information & communication industries
- Melodrama
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Spectacle
- The arts
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDU United Kingdom, Great Britain
- thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
- United Kingdom, Great Britain
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DOI: 10.47788/SGOE1157Editions