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oapen-20.500.12657-502672023-12-13T13:20:14Z The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema Turvey, Gerry film; cinema; cinematography; media; Britain; melodrama; spectacle; history; British bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KN Industry & industrial studies::KNT Media, information & communication industries::KNTC Cinema industry bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLW 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1D Europe::1DB British Isles::1DBK United Kingdom, Great Britain This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through an in-depth history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company – also known as ‘B&C’– in the years 1908-1916, the period when it became one of Britain’s leading film producers. It provides an account of its films and personalities, and explores its production methods, business practices and policy changes. Gerry Turvey examines the range of short film genres B&C manufactured, including newsworthy topicals and comics, and series dramas, and how they often drew on the resources of urban Britain’s existing popular culture – from cheap reading matter to East End melodramas. He discusses B&C’s first open-air studio in East Finchley, its extensive use of location filming, and its large, state-of-the-art studio at Walthamstow. He also investigates how the films were photographed and ‘staged’, their developing formal properties, and how the choice of genres shifted radically over time in an attempt to seek new audiences. 2021-07-29T07:29:09Z 2021-07-29T07:29:09Z 2021 book 9781905816651 9781905816668 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50267 eng Exeter Studies in Film History application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781905816668.pdf https://www.exeterpress.co.uk/en/Book/2109/The-BC-Kinematograph-Company-and-British-Cinema.html University of Exeter Press 10.47788/SGOE1157 10.47788/SGOE1157 8997c8ff-5e93-42a0-99b3-3ed1ff2e7d62 9781905816651 9781905816668 448 Exeter open access
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This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through an in-depth history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company – also known as ‘B&C’– in the years 1908-1916, the period when it became one of Britain’s leading film producers. It provides an account of its films and personalities, and explores its production methods, business practices and policy changes.
Gerry Turvey examines the range of short film genres B&C manufactured, including newsworthy topicals and comics, and series dramas, and how they often drew on the resources of urban Britain’s existing popular culture – from cheap reading matter to East End melodramas. He discusses B&C’s first open-air studio in East Finchley, its extensive use of location filming, and its large, state-of-the-art studio at Walthamstow. He also investigates how the films were photographed and ‘staged’, their developing formal properties, and how the choice of genres shifted radically over time in an attempt to seek new audiences.
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