Today we announced that our annual celebration of horror and SFF films will not be continuing. Here’s a message from the festival team, plus some memories from the past 11 years.
We’re based in Bradford, the first ever UNESCO City of Film, so naturally we’re passionate about cinema. Cinema screenings, film festivals, and cinematography in our collection: read more about everything to do with film at the museum.
Phil Boot delves into the wonders of the Ray Harryhausen collection.
Our Photography Curator Colin Harding looks back at his time spent with legendary photographer Don McCullin.
Late last year we lost two major figures associated with the cinema, both of whom had links to the Museum: the photographer Cornel Lucas and the composer Richard Rodney Bennett.
Amour, Skyfall and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia head up our films of the year, but who else was a contender, and what were your favourites of 2012?
In a case that dragged on for decades, how did a relatively unknown clergyman and amateur photographer take on the Goliath of Eastman Kodak Company?
Charles Hazlewood’s documentary short Total Permission is a fascinating account of artists living with disabilities.
Our series of informative lectures continued with a talk on how computer-generated cityscapes are used in games, film and architecture.
In the third and final post of the series, Colin Harding looks at the role played by celluloid in the invention and development of moving pictures.
In the second of a series, Colin Harding investigates the role celluloid played in the invention of ‘rollable’ film.
In the first of a series of three posts, Colin Harding looks at the development of celluloid and how early photographers experimented with it.
Since May 2011, we have been exhibiting selections from Ray Harryhausen’s personal collection outside our research centre. Today we reveal the final thematic display: Dinosaurs.