The Kodak Gallery now plays host to one of our most amazing discoveries: the earliest moving colour film. Our timeline charts the full story of how Lee and Turner’s film came to be.
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.
Beth explores the stories behind our new discovery—the first colour moving pictures—including the people who created this incredible film.
Today the museum made an astonishing announcement to the world. Are you ready for this?
Despite stiff competition, Nicolas Steiner’s Battle of the Queens (2011) was undoubtedly one of the stand-out films from this year’s Bradford International Film Festival.
Today we heard the upsetting news that Eric Sykes, the very first recipient of the Bradford Film Festival Fellowship in 2006, has died aged 89.
On 4 July 1862 Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Rev. Robinson Duckworth took three little girls—Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell—on a rowing trip up the Isis in Oxford.
Widescreen Weekend 2012 played host to a very special guest. He didn’t quite have the stature of Ray Winstone or Barbara Windsor, yet he’s been around for 50 years, and his film has been enjoyed by millions around the world…
Olivier Assayas, the recipient of this year’s Bradford International Film Festival Fellowship Award, visited the museum to speak about the relationship between globalisation and film.
Congratulations to Lars Kornhoff and Rúnar Rúnarsson, the winners of this year’s Shine Short Films Award and the newly-launched European Features Competition.
We’ve got a couple of video clips to share from Barbara Windsor’s visit to the museum. Watch her discuss EastEnders and THAT scene in Carry On Camping…
One of the highlights of everyone’s Bradford International Film Festival had to be the Dodge Brothers’ busk—a last-minute addition to the programme.
We did things a bit differently for opening night this year: black tie was out, tea dresses and cardigans were in.