Category Amateur
‘The Witchery of [colour] Kodakery’ and British women amateur filmmakers in late colonial period
By Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes One of the significant visual components of British colonial culture is represented by amateur film practice, which until recently has been largely neglected in terms of its historic relevance in the construction of British imperial identity. The study of British colonial amateur films offers reliable counter-narratives to the conventional, official and […]
INNOVATION AND EXPERIMENTATION Pt.4: FANTASTIC DESIGNS
by Paul Frith, Post-Doc Research Associate on The Eastmancolor Revolution Project This final post in our series on amateur filmmakers features the remaining two of six titles from the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers collection digitised as part of The Eastmancolor Revolution project (see the previous Innovation and Experimentation blog posts for further details). Both of these […]
Innovation and Experimentation Pt.3: Film Societies and the ‘Lone Worker’
by Paul Frith, Post-Doc Research Associate on The Eastmancolor Revolution Project Picking up from my previous blog (Innovation and Experimentation Pt.2, 13 July 2017) which featured the first selection of films from the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers collection to be digitised as part of The Eastmancolor Revolution project, two new titles from the collection are […]
Innovation and Experimentation Pt.2: The Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection at the East Anglian Film Archive
by Paul Frith, Post-Doc Research Associate on The Eastmancolor Revolution Project As I mentioned in a previous blog for the project website (‘Innovation and Experimentation’, 19 April 2017), as a professional film stock, Eastmancolor was rarely used in amateur filmmaking. That’s not to suggest that the amateurs were unable to produce colour images to rival […]
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