We are pleased to announce that the conference website, including the schedule is now live: www.baftss.org/conference-2...
Places are limited - register early to avoid disappointment.
Deadline: 8th March 2026.
Queries can be directed to baftss2026@gmail.com
Launch for Film Studios book in Bristol 20 Feb 2026!
04.02.2026 13:45 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My author copy of our STUDIOTEC project book arrived today. I'm pleased as punch to have been able to work alongside @sarahstreet.bsky.social, @eleanorhalsall.bsky.social, and many other brainy people in its creation.
16.01.2026 20:52 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0There was one in Cambridge that was so pointlessly aggro that it got nicknamed Asbo
06.12.2025 08:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two girls outside the cinema in Newlyn, later identified as Helen Francis, wearing a brightly-coloured Cryséde silk scarf, and her friend Winifred, applying scarlet lipstick.
Girls Outside the Gaiety Cinema, Newlyn
1925
Harold Harvey (1874–1941)
Private Collection
Sprung, about some prisoners given early release because of the pandemic, is good fun
01.09.2025 21:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Went through Bonnie Doon recently. Sang the song
24.08.2025 09:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ah, Bonnie Doon!
24.08.2025 08:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0There's a Butthole Lane in Shepshed
19.07.2025 21:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
Nerdy-cool is the best kind of cool
15.07.2025 18:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Reader, she did not resist.
07.07.2025 21:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
STUDIOTEC’s results in brief article just published in 6 languages!
cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4...
Information for the Picnic @ 50 symposium, organised by the Sheffield Centre for Research in Film, which takes place on June 20th as a hybrid event. The poster mostly features text, as well as the title screen from Peter Weir's film Picnic At Hanging Rock, which will be the focus on the symposium.
Keep forgetting to post about it (everything's frantic, prepping for this + working to get the
@londonaustfilm.bsky.social
festival line-up sorted), but I'm doing my first keynote tomorrow, as part of the PICNIC @ 50 symposium at @sheffielduni.bsky.social, organised by Jonathan Rayner and SCRIF.
Look in the odd sock box you put together last year.
16.06.2025 10:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sound the new article klaxon again! My piece on the death and afterlife of Denham film studios is now available for FREE in Industrial Archaeology Review.
Features a wonderful picture of a pig in a mail coach and my usual erudite musings.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My article on Golden Age detective novels set in British film studios has just been published in the Journal of British Cinema and Television.
Come for the gruesome murders, stay for the cover art and searing analysis. [Login needed, sadly.]
www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
Strong sock game, there
17.05.2025 10:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
STUDIOTEC project book Film Studios now in production with Bloomsbury!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/film-stud...
On VE night, British cinemas celebrated by switching on their external lights for the first time since the introduction of the blackout. Many children witnessed the 'strange miracle' of neon for the first time and crowds 'just stared up at the lights, their happy faces illuminated in the glare'.
08.05.2025 20:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0There were a few Pokemon films that might run it close...
27.04.2025 21:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations!
23.04.2025 17:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@yaelrice.bsky.social and I co-authored this piece precisely to combat misguided work like this so people don't have to constantly rehearse the arguments about why it's specious. We laid it all out here for you!
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
A Girl's Folly (1917) offers a behind-the-scenes look at a 1910s movie studio
05.04.2025 19:50 — 👍 90 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 1He is very much our Rude Dog. (One for the kids, there)
04.04.2025 20:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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...
