Prof Sarah Street: Principal Investigator – Bristol

Sarah Street is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol, UK. Her publications on colour film include Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation, 1900-55 (2012), winner of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies prize for Best Monograph, and two co-edited collections (with Simon Brown and Liz Watkins), Color and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive (2012) and British Colour  Cinema: Practices and Theories (2013). Her latest book is co-authored with Joshua Yumibe, Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s (2019) winner of the Katherine Singer Kocács Book Award, 2020. She is Principal Investigator on The Eastmancolor Revolution and British Cinema, 1955-85. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/school-of-arts/people/sarah-c-street/

Prof Keith Johnston: Co-Investigator – UEA

Keith M. Johnston is Professor in Film & Television at the University of East Anglia. His published research focuses on the interplay of technology, aesthetics and industry in British cinema, most notably around Ealing Studio’s use of colour between 1948 and 1957, and British stereoscopic 3-D in the 1950s. He is also the author of Coming Soon: Film Trailers and the Selling of Hollywood Technology (McFarland & Co, 2009), Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction (Berg, 2011), and co-editor of Ealing Revisited (BFI/Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). For the Eastmancolor project key interests were how Eastman Colour was promoted to the British film industry and audiences, and investigating the role film laboratories played in debates about colour filmmaking from the 1950s onwards.

Dr Carolyn Rickards: Post-Doc Research Associate – Bristol

Dr Carolyn Rickards was a Research Associate working on the project based at the University of Bristol in 2016-19. She recieved her PhD from the University of East Anglia in 2015. Her thesis investigated critical discourses attached to the fantasy genre and ‘Britishness’ within the context of contemporary cinema. For the Eastmancolor project she researched the impact of colour on film genres, tracking changes in reception towards the films produced during this time. Further areas of research interest included the influence of colour on fashion, design and other related media texts.

Dr Paul Frith: Post-Doc Research Associate – UEA

Dr Paul Frith is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the project at the University of East Anglia in 2016-19. He received his PhD from UEA in 2015 and, since 2013, was employed by the British Film Institute as a Conservation Specialist. His thesis addresses the commonly held misconception of a so-called ‘horror ban’ in Britain during the 1940s through alternative approaches to both censorship and discussions of the horror film. For the Eastmancolor project his research areas included the use of colour in amateur cinematography and horror film censorship during the rise in colour production in Britain during the 1950s.