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Coming Soon .... MONSTERS ATTACK Double Bill! See !! Ray Harryhausen's fanstastico stop motion dinosaurs awakened from d...
28/04/2023
"Monsters Attack!" 16mm Double Bill Teaser Trailer

Coming Soon .... MONSTERS ATTACK Double Bill! See !! Ray Harryhausen's fanstastico stop motion dinosaurs awakened from deep sleep by a nuclear test. See!! Joan Collins (for it is she) and unlucky pals valiantly battling a giant oversized ant. See! On 16mm film. Here at The Cinema Museum May 13th

Teaser trailer in the style of a 30 second TV spot for the Lost Reels 16mm Double Bill event, "Monsters Attack!" at the Cinema Museum on May 13, 2023.

Screening from 35mm film tomorrow (Saturday 29th) at 2.30pm at the David Lean Cinema in Croydon: GOSFORD PARK (2001) dir...
28/10/2022

Screening from 35mm film tomorrow (Saturday 29th) at 2.30pm at the David Lean Cinema in Croydon: GOSFORD PARK (2001) dir Robert Altman, with Eileen Atkins, Maggie Smith, Derek Jacobi and Helen Mirren. Before Julian Fellowes hit gold with Downton Abbey, he won a screenplay Oscar for this murder mystery. With his customary flair, Robert Altman directs an all-star cast of British acting royalty in a story of a hunting party that goes seriously wrong, offering a wickedly entertaining view of the class system both upstairs and downstairs. Booking & trailer: www.davidleancinema.org.uk/

Tomorrow (Sunday) at 6pm at The Cinema Museum, Edward Dmytryk's lurid Southern melodrama WALK ON THE WILD SIDE (1962) sc...
22/10/2022

Tomorrow (Sunday) at 6pm at The Cinema Museum, Edward Dmytryk's lurid Southern melodrama WALK ON THE WILD SIDE (1962) screening from 35mm film. A man arrives in New Orleans searching for his former girlfriend, an artist who now works in a bo****lo. Plus there will be food and beer! 👍Presented by The Vito project LGBT Film Club. Don't Miss It!

Thankyou to everyone who has supported the Museum over the past couple of uncertain years. We are having FOUR parties fo...
22/07/2022

Thankyou to everyone who has supported the Museum over the past couple of uncertain years. We are having FOUR parties for major donors and supporters, and we have five Free Guest +1 tickets available for tomorrow afternoon's event. That's Sat the 23rd. Come and see us at the Museum with bubbles, nibbles, cinema sounds, lots of fun and an update on our future. First five people to email Katharine on [email protected] will get the lucky tickets.

Big News! At Last, we can Buy Our Home.After 15 years of campaigning, The Cinema Museum’s future looks brighter, because...
21/04/2022

Big News! At Last, we can Buy Our Home.

After 15 years of campaigning, The Cinema Museum’s future looks brighter, because at last we have a chance to secure a permanent home for the Museum AND save our well-loved, unique heritage building.

We have just signed a four year lease with our landlords, Anthology (part of the Lifestory Group) with an option to purchase the Master’s House buildings for £1 million.

We are grateful to Anthology for giving us the legal certainty we need to save both The Cinema Museum and The Master’s House buildings. We are grateful to the Mayor of London and the GLA who were supportive of the Museum throughout. We are grateful to both officers and politicians at Lambeth Council, who provided over a decade of kind help and support in getting the Museum to this stage. We are grateful to officers and politicians at Southwark Council who also took us under their wing. We are grateful to Art Fund for emergency funding during Covid. Thank you to all our local partners in Lambeth and Southwark for everything you do for us. And - Museum Development London (funded by Arts Council England and Art Fund) who have expertly advised and supported us for over a decade, THANK YOU!

BUT they are organisations, not people, so thank you all, so much, every one of you who has stood up for us, signed our 62,000+ petition and donated to our crowdfunders. Thank you to our visitors, neighbours, friends and most importantly - our amazing, giant-hearted and hard-working volunteers, past and present. Thank you all for your pro bono advice; your work; your time; your money. Thank you for your generosity, kindness, encouragement, trust and belief.

Thank You EVERYONE - this success has got your name written all over it - we will never forget.

For full statement please see our website: http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2022/at-last-we-can-buy-our-home/

18/12/2021

Here's a suitably vintage festive short produced for ABC (British cinema chain) in 1946. This looks very much like a George Pal Puppetoon animation, and the lovely unfaded colour is dye transfer Technicolor.

We will reopen (COVID permitting) for screenings January 8th, so in the meantime, Seasons Greetings from the Cinema Museum x

02/11/2021
Midland Counties Ice Cream Ad (Druggy Dollies) 1968

Relax! Relax a LOT, and have a Va**um (tm) flavour ice cream, from Midland Counties Ice Cream, ca 1968.

(This cinema ad should probably have a warning before it saying "this advertisement is from a different era").

Mogadon Ripple, anyone? 😴🍦🍧

Two weeks ago we asked for your help with the 'Save The Cinema Museum' petition - you were wonderful - you got us from 5...
28/10/2021
Sign the Petition

Two weeks ago we asked for your help with the 'Save The Cinema Museum' petition - you were wonderful - you got us from 57,200 to 59,250. We are just chasing the last 750 supporters before we deliver the petition. We intend smashing our target of 60,000 signatures, and we are close to doing that but there is still a little way to go yet. Please do what you can to help us over the line on this last shove by signing and sharing on social media and sharing the link. If half of you can find just one other person to sign then we'll be over the line by suppertime!

Here is the link, just click on and it will take you to the petition:

https://www.change.org/p/love-cinema-save-the-cinema-museum

Love Cinema? Save The Cinema Museum

15/10/2021

Dear Friends, despite the accolade of our co-founders Ronald and Martin receiving a prestigious award at the Pordenone Festival, Italy last week, The Cinema Museum remains in immediate danger of losing its home and closing forever.

We intend delivering our online petition to our landlords and the Mayor of London, but in order to do that we will need to bring the petition to a close. We want to have hit 60,00 signatures - we're currently approaching 57,500 - so please help if you can by signing and sharing across your social media networks. This is likely to be everyone's last chance. So please do all you can to help us out of this jam.

Here is the link to the petition: https://tinyurl.com/y9jgubrv

Thank You! And have an ice cream on us (see attached vintage advert).

The Museum's Directors have won an International Film Award ......Martin Humphries and Ronald Grant, directors and co-fo...
10/10/2021

The Museum's Directors have won an International Film Award ......

Martin Humphries and Ronald Grant, directors and co-founders of The Cinema Museum, have won a prestigious international "Jean Mitry Award" for their work in creating and running The Cinema Museum – home to silent film screenings in London. This annual prize, since 1989, has been awarded to "individuals and institutions, distinguished for their contribution to the reclamation and appreciation of silent cinema".

The award was presented this weekend at the Silent Film Festival (Le Giornate del Cinema Muto) in Pordenone, Italy. Pordenone is the world’s largest and most important international festival dedicated to silent film and its annual award is amongst the sector's most valued achievements.

Our photos show Ronald Grant, the co-founder of the Museum (est. 1984), on stage at the film festival giving a short speech as the award was presented. We're all thrilled to hear the news 😃

29/09/2021
Lyons Maid Countdown

WE ARE REOPENING OCTOBER 19th!!

Finally! After 18 months closure we're back open for events starting Oct 19th. Details of all events will be posted here and on our website. Come and see us!

Tours will recommence in 2022, COVID permitting.

16/09/2021

During our 18 month closure due to COVID we have been sorting out and cataloguing some of our film holdings and here's a rather splendid discovery: this cartoon was spliced on the end of a reel and we didn't know it was there. Anson Dyer (1876-1962) was a major figure in British animation for over thirty years, from the First World War to the late 1940s. Here's an advertising film he made for Kelloggs called "Behind The Clock", showing you the benefits of having a good breakfast every day. You'll note that you're not told you're watching an advert until the very last minute. The lovely unfaded colour is dye transfer Technicolor. From 1943.

10/09/2021
I Couldn't Have Believed It (Cadburys Ad, ca. 1930)

REOPENING DATE SOON ... We hope to be open again in mid/late October. More news on this when we have it. Meanwhile, settle in with a nice box of chocolates. This promotional film for Cadburys, scanned from our collection, is from the pre-Quality Street era when chocolate assortments were still the preserve of the wealthier purchaser .... and when cinema audiences had the patience for six minute adverts. From around 1930.

26/05/2021
Embex Cinema Ad, 1942

DO YOU HAVE A HEADACHE?? Does your head often THROB? If so then that could be due to the SHOUTY announcer on this CINEMA ADVERTISING FILM from 1942. He wants to tell YOU in NO UNCERTAIN TERMS about the NEW WONDER HEALTH PRODUCT called EMBEX. We don't know what's in it, but BY JOVE, EMBEX CURES ALL ILLS!! Buy some TODAY!! 💊💊😊

21/05/2021

Yes! At last! The wonder of SKIFFLE HEAT will cook your dinner auto-magically whilst you're out shopping in your gloves and high heels.

Scanned from a delightful 1950s British cinema ad.

(Musical purists might question whether this is really skiffle - where's me washboard?)

We are at the moment putting together our next Public Statement on ‘Save The Cinema Museum’, which will include us stati...
02/05/2021
Sign the Petition

We are at the moment putting together our next Public Statement on ‘Save The Cinema Museum’, which will include us stating how many supporters we have for our ‘Save The Cinema Museum’ petition.

We have done a lot of work in circulating the petition and we are now at 54,825 - so that's just 175 signatures away from 55,000. Please help us get there over this weekend by signing, sharing, posting, tweeting and emailing the below link - and encouraging people to help save this beautiful building and marvellous museum.

Thank You!!

https://www.change.org/p/matthew-patrick-slam-nhs-uk-love-cinema-save-the-cinema-museum

Love Cinema? Save The Cinema Museum

This coming Saturday afternoon, May 1st, at 5.30pm BST, The Cinema Theatre Association is presenting another Online Cine...
28/04/2021

This coming Saturday afternoon, May 1st, at 5.30pm BST, The Cinema Theatre Association is presenting another Online Cinema Magazine Programme. This episode is titled Focus on Aberdeen and Edinburgh.

Enjoy two features with a Scottish focus, followed by a photo quiz and then a chance to chat and socialise with other attendees. Everyone’s Welcome!

The programme runs as follows:

MEMORIES OF ABERDEEN CINEMAS BY RONALD GRANT
Ronald Grant is best-known as the curator and co-founder of the Cinema Museum, but from the age of 15 he was a projectionist in a number of Aberdeen’s 19 cinemas, many of which were owned and operated by the James F Donald family.

It was whilst working in Aberdeen that Ronald started collecting cinema apparatus and artefacts. Working with co-founder Martin Humphries, in 1986 the Cinema Museum was established to give Ronald's collection a permanent home and to continue saving more cinematic treasures wherever possible.

Ronald has prepared an engaging and affectionate recollection of his time working in 1950s Aberdeen cinemas and has illustrated it with fascinating photographs and rare film clips from his personal collection. Followed by a Q&A with Ronald.

AN EDINBURGH CINEMA WITH A DIFFERENCE BY PETER KENDRICK
Discover Edinburgh’s secret cinema at Scotland’s longest-established film makers’ society. Peter Kendrick tells us the story of The Edinburgh Ciné and Video Society, created in 1936; of how they evolved, made films and how they later made the transition from ciné to video. Peter’s presentation includes many photographs and film clips. Followed by a Q&A with Peter.

JOIN THE QUIZ AND SOCIALISING
Join in the quiz as we all try to guess the locations of a dozen cinemas around the UK as presented by a guest photographer. You can offer your answers in the chat room, and after the quiz we invite you to join in an open chat session about cinema-related topics. Share your passions, rekindle fond memories and debate your favourites!

CTA TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS ARE OPEN TO EVERYONE!
BOOK HERE https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/online/online/cinema-theatre-association-talk-no-7-edinburgh-and-aberdeen/2021-05-01/17:30/t-odepeg
TICKETS ONLY £3 PER DEVICE and BOOKINGS CLOSE SATURDAY 4.30pm - DON'T MISS OUT!

Good news - we are making great progress on the Crowdfunder for the new eco-friendly electric van. But we need another p...
18/03/2021
Green Museum STEP 1

Good news - we are making great progress on the Crowdfunder for the new eco-friendly electric van. But we need another push to get to the finish line...

We have successfully raised over 86% of the funds we need. We are now in need of a final £670 - please do donate if you can 😀 🚚
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/green-museum-step-1

thank you and we very much hope to see you in person back at our venue later in the year.

Best Wishes,

Your friends at The Cinema Museum

We want to be a world-class carbon neutral museum; replacing our gas guzzler with an electric van is Step One, please help us take it.

Dear friends and supporters,Thank you once again for sticking with us across COVID. We look forward to welcoming you bac...
10/03/2021
Green Museum STEP 1

Dear friends and supporters,

Thank you once again for sticking with us across COVID. We look forward to welcoming you back to the Museum in person later this year. We are using the temporary closure to work on sorting the collections, and on developing our Green Museum Plan. A big part of that plan involves purchasing our building so that we can invest in a range of improvements needed there to improve sustainability, and our action plan also involves taking immediate action that will have a real impact: our first step is to replace our petrol van with an electric version.

The electric van we have found costs £15,500; we can get £9,125.00 in part exchange for our current petrol motor, and the Museum Trustees have raised over £2,000.

We need your help to raise the remaining £4,000.

We want to be a museum that is safe, fair and respectful - to people and the planet - please consider donating via this link

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/green-museum-step-1

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

from your friends at The Cinema Museum.

We want to be a world-class carbon neutral museum; replacing our gas guzzler with an electric van is Step One, please help us take it.

Sadly, due to the ongoing COVID crisis we remain (temporarily) closed, so this year we can't have our annual February 14...
13/02/2021
5 Fabulous Things for This Valentine’s Weekend » The Cinema Museum, London

Sadly, due to the ongoing COVID crisis we remain (temporarily) closed, so this year we can't have our annual February 14th Friends and Neighbours Open House event, but in the meantime we havea five point Pleasure Plan for Valentines Day Weekend.

We have made a beautiful little film with the help of photographer Francesco Zavattari and renowned local composer and musician Neil Brand. That's one of the five points, and you can see it and find out what the other four points are here:

https://bit.ly/3d987Yr

Each year The Cinema Museum hosts a sparkling ‘thank you friends and neighbours’ party. That can’t happen this year, so, thanks to ArtFund, we have created something to make your Valentine’s weekend special. Watch our serenaded film show We worked with photographer Francesco Zavattari and co...

Let's hope that we are able to go on holiday again later this year. Meantime here's an advertising film from Butlins Hol...
15/01/2021
Butlins Holiday Camp Advert 1966

Let's hope that we are able to go on holiday again later this year. Meantime here's an advertising film from Butlins Holiday Camps, made in 1966. I'm going to ride on the Monorail and then you'll find me in the Tiki Beachcomber Bar downing Polynesian cocktails ("glamorous concoctions") at only 4 shillings (20 of your new pence) a pop. Yummy. 🍹🍸🍇

https://youtu.be/YDATadGVvSA

Showing the Monorail; the Ski Slope; Waterskiiing; the Wild West Saloon and (most exotic of all) the Tiki Beachcomber Bar, with yummy-looking cocktails ("gla...

An Evening with Barbara Windsor, June 20th 2012In June 2012, we hosted Dame Barbara Windsor for an evening celebrating h...
24/12/2020
An Evening With Barbara Windsor at The Cinema Museum, London, June 20 2012

An Evening with Barbara Windsor, June 20th 2012

In June 2012, we hosted Dame Barbara Windsor for an evening celebrating her 62-year career in showbusiness.

In 2014, Barbara was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and, as you will have seen in recent newspaper reports, sadly she recently passed away.

The Evening With interview was recorded and by arrangement with Barbara's husband Scott Mitchell, we can now present the recording for the first time. It's a fascinating, entertaining look at the life and work of a much-loved British showbiz legend.

A dedicated JustGiving web page has been set up and will act as a
Book of Condolence to which Barbara's friends and many fans can contribute. Scott has asked that people consider a donation to Alzheimer’s Research UK, in Barbara’s memory, to help support the search for breakthrough dementia treatments.

The page is here:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/damebarbara

Please give generously, and on behalf of Alzheimer’s Research UK,
thank you for your support.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-x1AyZmwUs

In June 2012, much-loved British actress Barbara Windsor was welcomed by a packed house at The Cinema Museum in London for a fascinating interview covering h...

The Daily News is so depressing. What we all need right now is a livener. Hey how about ..... a ..... good strong cup of...
13/12/2020
Groovy Coffee Cinema Promo

The Daily News is so depressing. What we all need right now is a livener. Hey how about ..... a ..... good strong cup of Joe. These groovers seem to have known this all along - take a look and be wowed! Far outtttt!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbyK4OkS1Q8

Fed up with the depressing World News Situation? How about a little livener..... Fancy a cup of Joe? These groovers seem to have known about it all along! Fa...

Hello dear friends of The Cinema Museum - well - WE DID IT!We have now had the final total amount confirmed and we are d...
10/12/2020
Merry Christmas 1938 Style

Hello dear friends of The Cinema Museum - well - WE DID IT!

We have now had the final total amount confirmed and we are delighted to report that our Crowdfunder Campaign and your very warm and generous support helped us achieve ..... £76,700 !!

A huge Thank You to all of you, from all of us. We live to fight another day and we can now return to the task of securing ownership of our home and the long term future of The Cinema Museum.

Thank you for sending us into 2021 with hopeful hearts!

Meantime here's A Festive Greeting To You, 1938 Style. Who can name all the stars?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOeP1anpx3A

Some of 1938's cinema stars wish you a Cool Yule, in tinted blue.

Final hours are approaching for our big Crowdfunder!!Yes it's nearly over…….our first ever Crowdfunder is just £1,800 sh...
02/12/2020
Reopen & Reimagine The Cinema Museum

Final hours are approaching for our big Crowdfunder!!

Yes it's nearly over…….our first ever Crowdfunder is just £1,800 short of £65,000 - Wow!!

With just a few more hours to go before the shutters come down we are pulling out all the stops. Please get behind our final fling with donations and by sharing the link below.

The deadline is 5pm and we will update you on our final total at the end of the day!

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/reopen-and-reimagine-the-cinema-museum

You can help me reopen my lovely little Cinema Museum in a way that keeps people safe and makes them happy. Have a quick read of our story!

Dear Friends of The Cinema Museum,Two of the UK’s most popular film and TV actors (and local residents close to the Muse...
19/11/2020
Reopen & Reimagine The Cinema Museum

Dear Friends of The Cinema Museum,

Two of the UK’s most popular film and TV actors (and local residents close to the Museum) Toby Jones and Rory Kinnear are helping our Crowdfunder to save the Museum from COVID ..... you can read it here:

http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/letter-to-friends-from-Toby-Jones-Rory-Kinnear-4.pdf

The Crowdfunder has been extended and has just five days left to go. Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who has donated - it's looking good!

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/reopen-and-reimagine-the-cinema-museum

You can help me reopen my lovely little Cinema Museum in a way that keeps people safe and makes them happy. Have a quick read of our story!

Thanks to everyone who has donated and shared our Crowd Funding campaign link. The good news is that we have just hit £1...
25/10/2020
Reopen & Reimagine The Cinema Museum

Thanks to everyone who has donated and shared our Crowd Funding campaign link. The good news is that we have just hit £19,000 so that's more than halfway there to our target of £30,000 !!

Please help us get there by donating (no amount too small! £1 will help!) and by continuing to share the campaign link.

We can do this!

Best Wishes from all at The Cinema Museum

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/reopen-and-reimagine-the-cinema-museum

You can help me reopen my lovely little Cinema Museum in a way that keeps people safe and makes them happy. Have a quick read of our story!

Our Fabulous Friends at Misty Moon have stepped up to help us survive COVID by turning their annual International Film F...
22/10/2020
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Misty Moon International Film Festival 2020. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Our Fabulous Friends at Misty Moon have stepped up to help us survive COVID by turning their annual International Film Festival into a fundraising event for the Museum.

The festival is back again this Halloween for another year of fantastic indie films. Due to COVID and the UK's social distancing restrictions, the festival cannot be held in person at The Cinema Museum, which is temporarily closed, so Misty Moon are holding the event online AND will be generating income for the Museum which as you know has had NO Government or other COVID Emergency funding.

All the finalists' films will be screened and the judges will be in attendance.

Join us on Sat Oct 24th at 7pm online via Zoom HERE:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Dzi3xabVQq25ocnqFVgQiw

Actor Suzanne Maddock, who played WPC Cass Rickman in ITV's The Bill, is host this year. Celebrity judges include:

• Diane Franklin - Actor (Amityville : The Possession, The Last American Virgin)
• Sandy Johnson - Actor (Halloween)
• Carole Royle - Actor (The Bill, Doctors, Shakespeare and Hathaway)
• Linzi Drew - Actor ( An American Werewolf In London, Death Shock)
• Emma Dark - Actor/ Director (Seize The Night, FRANKULA, Salient Minus Ten)
• David Barry - Actor ( Please Sir!, The Fenn Street Gang)
• Ben Peyton (The Bill)

See You Online!

The Misty Moon International Film Festival is taking place online this year; on Saturday 24 October. Our special guest judges at the final are: Judy Matheson, Carole Royle, Linzi Drew, Sandy Johnson, Diane Franklin, Emma Dark, Ben Peyton and David Barry. The evening will be hosted by Suzanne Maddock...

HELP THE CINEMA MUSEUM SURVIVE COVID!Hello everyone - sorry for the radio silence, but we have had our heads down!  We a...
19/10/2020
Reopen & Reimagine The Cinema Museum

HELP THE CINEMA MUSEUM SURVIVE COVID!

Hello everyone - sorry for the radio silence, but we have had our heads down! We are still temporarily closed - but we are undertaking a huge tidy-up at the Museum, never before attempted - so we’ll be much tidier for our reopening.

We're hoping to reopen ASAP in 2021 and we're now searching for funding so we can get all the new required precautions in place and also subsidise our artists and production campaniles to return.

We’ve all recently heard of those organisations who 'fell between the funding gaps' - that's us. We applied for the UK Government COVID Emergency Funding for the Arts but we didn't even meet the qualifying criteria (well done to those who did and good luck to everyone!).

So we still need to raise over £30,000 to pay our bills and ensure we still have a home where we can welcome you back when COVID finally departs. We are already 30% of the way to our target thanks to our generous supporters so please donate, help us hold onto our home - we have four weeks to raise the money so we've set up a crowdfunding page below.

Thank You Very Much!

Best Wishes from the team at The Cinema Museum

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/reopen-and-reimagine-the-cinema-museum

You can help me reopen my lovely little Cinema Museum in a way that keeps people safe and makes them happy. Have a quick read of our story!

The Cheaters
03/10/2020
The Cheaters

The Cheaters

Beautifully restored by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, this suspenseful melodrama by filmmaking pioneers the McDonagh sisters charts the adventures of a confidence woman.

The Museum is remaining closed whilst Government COVID-19 restrictions on numbers make it unviable for us to operate. Al...
17/09/2020

The Museum is remaining closed whilst Government COVID-19 restrictions on numbers make it unviable for us to operate. All remaining events for 2020 have been cancelled and ticket holders will be automatically refunded.

We hope to reopen asap in 2021.

This coming Wednesday, August 19th, at 7.30pm BST, our regular silent movie night Kennington Bioscope presents, on their...
18/08/2020

This coming Wednesday, August 19th, at 7.30pm BST, our regular silent movie night Kennington Bioscope presents, on their YouTube Channel, a hair-raising ride plus picturesque scenes of Paris in the short comedy film, Un Partie de Tandem – A Ride on the Tandem Bike (1909) and then a feature: "In Search Of The Castaways", an eternal tale of adventure from the pen of 19th Century novelist, Jules Verne and an exciting cinematic adaptation produced by the French Éclair company, with film scenario written by Jules’ son, Michael Verne.

"In Search Of The Castaways“ is an adventure film. Lord Glenarvan and Lady Helena find a letter in which Captain Grant asks for help. Together with the children of Grant and Jacques Pagnanel they go looking. Since the letter is unclear, they have to search the entire thirty-seventh parallel. They experience many adventures in South America, Australia and New Zealand…” Native New Zealander and Bioscope musician John Sweeney was keen to screen this action film, with its varied landscapes, shot in France standing in for his homeland, and he will perform a live improvised accompaniment.

The show will be hosted by Bioscope presenter Michelle Facey.
These screenings are FREE. You can subscribe (FREE) to the Bioscope YouTube channel and get notifications of future shows and all the previous Bioscope shows are archived there for your on-demand viewing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOBwVjkY8X8

This coming Wednesday, August 5th, at 7.30pm BST, our regular silent movie night Kennington Bioscope presents,  on their...
04/08/2020

This coming Wednesday, August 5th, at 7.30pm BST, our regular silent movie night Kennington Bioscope presents, on their YouTube Channel, a programme of travelogue shorts plus two films with an Italian setting.

Foreign holiday plans may have been postponed this year but we will be taking a vicarious voyage, travelling with first-class films, across the Mediterranean as seen through the lens of a selection of European travelogues. Plus we have a Vitagraph drama directed by and starring Maurice Costello and Clara Kimball Young, shot on location in Venice, and an Italian comedy which sees Robinet attempting to take his vacation. All the films in this episode are courtesy the EYE Filmmuseum and Jean Desmet Collection.

La perle de la Mediteranee: Barcelona (FR 1913)
Constantine (FR 1913)
Egypte (FR 1910?)
Turkije (FR 1915)
Beelden uit Piraeus (GR or NL? 1920)
The Lonely Princess (USA 1913)
Robinet in Vacanza (IT 1912)

Accompanying on the piano will be Bioscope regulars Cyrus Gabrysch, Lillian Henley, John Sweeney and Costas Fotopoulos. The show will be hosted by Bioscope presenter Michelle Facey.

These screenings are FREE. You can subscribe (FREE) to the Bioscope YouTube channel and get notifications of future shows and all the previous Bioscope shows are archived there for your on-demand viewing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU6EisE9irU

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Screening from 35mm film tomorrow (Saturday 29th) at 2.30pm at the David Lean Cinema in Croydon: GOSFORD PARK (2001) dir Robert Altman, with Eileen Atkins, Maggie Smith, Derek Jacobi and Helen Mirren. Before Julian Fellowes hit gold with Downton Abbey, he won a screenplay Oscar for this murder mystery. With his customary flair, Robert Altman directs an all-star cast of British acting royalty in a story of a hunting party that goes seriously wrong, offering a wickedly entertaining view of the class system both upstairs and downstairs. Booking & trailer: www.davidleancinema.org.uk/
Tomorrow (Sunday) at 6pm at The Cinema Museum, Edward Dmytryk's lurid Southern melodrama WALK ON THE WILD SIDE (1962) screening from 35mm film. A man arrives in New Orleans searching for his former girlfriend, an artist who now works in a bo****lo. Plus there will be food and beer! 👍Presented by The Vito project LGBT Film Club. Don't Miss It!
Thankyou to everyone who has supported the Museum over the past couple of uncertain years. We are having FOUR parties for major donors and supporters, and we have five Free Guest +1 tickets available for tomorrow afternoon's event. That's Sat the 23rd. Come and see us at the Museum with bubbles, nibbles, cinema sounds, lots of fun and an update on our future. First five people to email Katharine on [email protected] will get the lucky tickets.
Big News! At Last, we can Buy Our Home.

After 15 years of campaigning, The Cinema Museum’s future looks brighter, because at last we have a chance to secure a permanent home for the Museum AND save our well-loved, unique heritage building.

We have just signed a four year lease with our landlords, Anthology (part of the Lifestory Group) with an option to purchase the Master’s House buildings for £1 million.

We are grateful to Anthology for giving us the legal certainty we need to save both The Cinema Museum and The Master’s House buildings. We are grateful to the Mayor of London and the GLA who were supportive of the Museum throughout. We are grateful to both officers and politicians at Lambeth Council, who provided over a decade of kind help and support in getting the Museum to this stage. We are grateful to officers and politicians at Southwark Council who also took us under their wing. We are grateful to Art Fund for emergency funding during Covid. Thank you to all our local partners in Lambeth and Southwark for everything you do for us. And - Museum Development London (funded by Arts Council England and Art Fund) who have expertly advised and supported us for over a decade, THANK YOU!

BUT they are organisations, not people, so thank you all, so much, every one of you who has stood up for us, signed our 62,000+ petition and donated to our crowdfunders. Thank you to our visitors, neighbours, friends and most importantly - our amazing, giant-hearted and hard-working volunteers, past and present. Thank you all for your pro bono advice; your work; your time; your money. Thank you for your generosity, kindness, encouragement, trust and belief.

Thank You EVERYONE - this success has got your name written all over it - we will never forget.

For full statement please see our website: http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2022/at-last-we-can-buy-our-home/
Greetings gentlefolk! We're delighted to say that the Museum reopens for screenings this coming Saturday evening with Ladies They Talk About (1933) starring Barbara Stanwyck, and then on Sunday afternoon we have a Stephen Sondheim musical Gypsy (1962). See our Events page for details of these and all the other shows we have planned for Spring.

Meantime, here is our current favourite advert: Make A Date To Go Bowling. Indoor ten pin bowling was new to Britain in 1960. ABC converted some of their super cinemas into bowling alleys and commissioned British Pathe (they of the Pictorial) to make this breezy promo film to show on their cinema circuit. Look for the ordinary people (bus driver, housewife, overacting businessman) suddenly transfixed by the idea of a night down the bowling. From around 1962.
Here's a suitably vintage festive short produced for ABC (British cinema chain) in 1946. This looks very much like a George Pal Puppetoon animation, and the lovely unfaded colour is dye transfer Technicolor.

We will reopen (COVID permitting) for screenings January 8th, so in the meantime, Seasons Greetings from the Cinema Museum x
Relax! Relax a LOT, and have a Va**um (tm) flavour ice cream, from Midland Counties Ice Cream, ca 1968.

(This cinema ad should probably have a warning before it saying "this advertisement is from a different era").

Mogadon Ripple, anyone? 😴🍦🍧
Two weeks ago we asked for your help with the 'Save The Cinema Museum' petition - you were wonderful - you got us from 57,200 to 59,250. We are just chasing the last 750 supporters before we deliver the petition. We intend smashing our target of 60,000 signatures, and we are close to doing that but there is still a little way to go yet. Please do what you can to help us over the line on this last shove by signing and sharing on social media and sharing the link. If half of you can find just one other person to sign then we'll be over the line by suppertime!

Here is the link, just click on and it will take you to the petition:

https://www.change.org/p/love-cinema-save-the-cinema-museum
Dear Friends, despite the accolade of our co-founders Ronald and Martin receiving a prestigious award at the Pordenone Festival, Italy last week, The Cinema Museum remains in immediate danger of losing its home and closing forever.

We intend delivering our online petition to our landlords and the Mayor of London, but in order to do that we will need to bring the petition to a close. We want to have hit 60,00 signatures - we're currently approaching 57,500 - so please help if you can by signing and sharing across your social media networks. This is likely to be everyone's last chance. So please do all you can to help us out of this jam.

Here is the link to the petition: https://tinyurl.com/y9jgubrv

Thank You! And have an ice cream on us (see attached vintage advert).
The Museum's Directors have won an International Film Award ......

Martin Humphries and Ronald Grant, directors and co-founders of The Cinema Museum, have won a prestigious international "Jean Mitry Award" for their work in creating and running The Cinema Museum – home to silent film screenings in London. This annual prize, since 1989, has been awarded to "individuals and institutions, distinguished for their contribution to the reclamation and appreciation of silent cinema".

The award was presented this weekend at the Silent Film Festival (Le Giornate del Cinema Muto) in Pordenone, Italy. Pordenone is the world’s largest and most important international festival dedicated to silent film and its annual award is amongst the sector's most valued achievements.

Our photos show Ronald Grant, the co-founder of the Museum (est. 1984), on stage at the film festival giving a short speech as the award was presented. We're all thrilled to hear the news 😃
WE ARE REOPENING OCTOBER 19th!!

Finally! After 18 months closure we're back open for events starting Oct 19th. Details of all events will be posted here and on our website. Come and see us!

Tours will recommence in 2022, COVID permitting.
During our 18 month closure due to COVID we have been sorting out and cataloguing some of our film holdings and here's a rather splendid discovery: this cartoon was spliced on the end of a reel and we didn't know it was there. Anson Dyer (1876-1962) was a major figure in British animation for over thirty years, from the First World War to the late 1940s. Here's an advertising film he made for Kelloggs called "Behind The Clock", showing you the benefits of having a good breakfast every day. You'll note that you're not told you're watching an advert until the very last minute. The lovely unfaded colour is dye transfer Technicolor. From 1943.
REOPENING DATE SOON ... We hope to be open again in mid/late October. More news on this when we have it. Meanwhile, settle in with a nice box of chocolates. This promotional film for Cadburys, scanned from our collection, is from the pre-Quality Street era when chocolate assortments were still the preserve of the wealthier purchaser .... and when cinema audiences had the patience for six minute adverts. From around 1930.
Here's a quirky promotional film from the Fifties. Make sure to watch past the introduction and then you'll see the benefits of varied electric lighting, but demonstrated via the medium of dance (yes, really).

The irascible commentator is Gilbert Harding, a popular TV face of the time, whose Waldo Lydecker-esque demeanour earned him the description "The Bilious Bachelor of Broadcasting" 😄 From ca. 1953.
DO YOU HAVE A HEADACHE?? Does your head often THROB? If so then that could be due to the SHOUTY announcer on this CINEMA ADVERTISING FILM from 1942. He wants to tell YOU in NO UNCERTAIN TERMS about the NEW WONDER HEALTH PRODUCT called EMBEX. We don't know what's in it, but BY JOVE, EMBEX CURES ALL ILLS!! Buy some TODAY!! 💊💊😊
Yes! At last! The wonder of SKIFFLE HEAT will cook your dinner auto-magically whilst you're out shopping in your gloves and high heels.

Scanned from a delightful 1950s British cinema ad.

(Musical purists might question whether this is really skiffle - where's me washboard?)
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