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Eleanor Halsall

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Film historian, celebrating and enjoying decades of film art from German silents and early Indian talkies to Korean dramas and Hindi epics. :)

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Our STUDIOTEC book on European film studios from 1930-60, a BFI imprint, is getting closer to publication. It's now listed on Bloomsbury's website:

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/search/?q...

18.07.2025 11:18 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Beyond Hollywood: inside Europe’s golden age film studios Discover how European film studios evolved from 1930-1960 and why their legacy matters in today’s film industry.,,,European Commission

STUDIOTEC’s results in brief article just published in 6 languages!

cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4...

07.07.2025 11:51 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Just back from the Bombay Filmcolour Symposium. Two glorious days of stimulating talks and conversations with academics and filmmakers. Thank you to the speakers and organisers!

24.06.2025 18:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

De Uitkijk is Amsterdam's oldest cinema and has been in constant use since 1912. Run by students, it's a fabulous place offering some great rep films. Check it out here: uitkijk.nl

09.06.2025 20:03 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Film Studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy

If you'd like to know more about European film studios between 1930-1960, the STUDIOTEC book will be available from Bloomsbury early next year.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/film-stud...

09.05.2025 12:09 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Film Studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy

STUDIOTEC project book Film Studios now in production with Bloomsbury!

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/film-stud...

09.05.2025 10:22 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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German Film Studios of the Imagination By Tim Bergfelder and Eleanor Halsall Although STUDIOTEC’s focus is on the physical spaces that existed during the period 1930-60, a compelling question emerges about studios that were planned, but…

Incidentally, there were plans in the late 30s for Riefenstahl to have her own studio in Berlin-Dahlem, a proposal that confirmed her elevated status with the regime. studiotec.info/2023/11/08/g...

08.05.2025 19:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Andres Veiel's documentary follows years of research into Leni Riefenstahl's extensive archive. The result is a grounded and objective documentary into the complicated and troubling history of one of Germany's most significant filmmakers.

08.05.2025 15:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looking forward to the online book launch of Bregt Lameris’ ‘Feeling Colour’ in discussion with Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews) and Joshua Yumibe (Michigan State) @openbookpublish.bsky.social
3:00-4:15pm (London) Friday 23 May 2025
Further details & registration colourandfilm.com/cfps/

01.05.2025 10:47 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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This Studio is Dangerous! Hazards of Working in British Film Studios in the 1930s and 1940s This article examines the high number of fires in British film studios which occurred in the 1930s and 1940s. The reasons for studios’ vulnerability to fires, and other workplace accidents, are exa...

My latest article arising from the STUDIOTEC project on the dangers of working in film studios. It's Open Access so read for free!
doi.org/10.1080/0143...

04.04.2025 13:08 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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