https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/digitisation-project-julia-margaret-cameron/
…as William Henry Fox Talbot and the first President of the Royal Photographic Society, Roger Fenton—available through 2014 and beyond. ‘Profile of the Mountain Nymph’, 1870, Julia Margaret Cameron ©…
https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/magnum-photographers-visit-photography-collection/
…some sense of aura filter through? Jonas Bendiksen, Stuart Franklin, Peter Marlow and Fiona Rogers (Magnum) in Insight: Collections and Research Centre © Murray Ballard I enjoyed realising the size…
https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/yarns-from-the-potteries-and-cottonopolis/
…delicate labour in stark contrast to workers ‘[c]arrying away ware after being fired’ from kilns in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent (photographer and date unknown, above). Abell, Spirit of Cotton Blandford, Cotton Protest…
https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/collection-selections-framing-stoke-trent-potteries-daily-herald-archive/
…Works, Fenton, 1932, Daily Herald Archive, © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum Wedgwood Potteries, 1949, A Tanner, Daily Herald Archive, © The Board of Trustees of the…
https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/still-to-come-at-biff-2010/
…and the Whale (2005) and is the writing talent behind some of Wes Anderson’s finest films. Ben Stiller plays New Yorker Roger Greenberg, who moves to Los Angeles to figure…
https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/widescreen-weekend-2017-in-review/
…festival below, and see if you can spot yourself in the obligatory ‘audience on stage’ photo… The annual ‘audience on stage’ photo at Widescreen Weekend 2017 Photographs by Roger Moody…
https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/yorkshire-games-festival-2017-in-review/
…Wars Players in full LARPing gear for The Displaced After another successful festival, it’s now on to plans for the next—see you there! Photographs by Roger Moody and Jody Hartley…
https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/postcard-from-edinburgh-international-film-festival-2009/
…out of the Roger Corman retrospective, especially the sumptuous Edgar Allan Poe adaptation The Masque of the Red Death (1964) and also his very atypically topical and political race-hate exposé…
https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/women-in-widescreen/
…at Walt Disney Studios; she left Disney in 1987 to work with Robert Zemeckis on films including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Back to the Future II and Forrest Gump. Her…
https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/moviedrome-and-what-makes-a-cult-film/
…course a spattering of ‘cult’ film-makers such as John Carpenter, Roger Corman and David Cronenberg. All introduced by Alex Cox, giving production information as well as his opinion, they could…
https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/the-oberheim-synthesizer-a-playlist/
…Game and Flash Gordon, released in 1980 as the soundtrack for the famous movie. “I’m afraid that was my fault,” Roger Taylor writes in the 2010 biography Is This the…
https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/introduction-nitrate-film/
…Roger Smither (ed), This Film is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film, FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives), Brussels, 2002 Booklets Film Preservation, FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives), Brussels,1985…