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In the first of a new series developed
in partnership with British Telecom,
comedian Paul Merton introduces
an interactive guide to early film
comedy in Britain. Join Paul as
he takes you through a fascinating
and sometimes bizarre world of
4-year-old boxing champions,
human flies, pantomime-horse races
and giant possessed fish, and
explores the roots of today's
distinctively British humour.
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despite the fluctuating reputation
of British cinema in subsequent
decades, there is little doubt
that
between 1895 and 1905 the best
British pioneers fully deserve
to be
ranked alongside their counterparts
in France and the United States
in
terms of their resource, innovation
and overall contribution to the
creation of a new art form.
from screenonline brought
to you
by the British Film Institute
now in it's eighth year, a
celebration of British cinema
before 1930 and is organized
in collaboration with the
British Film Institute.
held at the Broadway Cinema
in Nottingham
the true pioneer of the cinematic
art form, unduly forgotten by many
images from a lost age.
at screenonline at the
British Film Institute's website
early British film comedies have
received little attention by
comparison with their better
known American counterparts,
partly because most of the
great silent screen comedians
(many of them, like Charlie Chaplin,
British)
were working in Hollywood with
higher production values, but
also because British humour
was regarded as quirky, wordy,
anarchic and parochial, now read on,
from screenonline brought to you by
the British Film Institute
For around seventy years,
800 rolls of early nitrate film
sat in sealed barrels in the
basement of a shop. a startling
discovery at screenonline at
the British Film Institute's website
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