
The Optilogue
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The Optilogue
@TheOptilogue
Studies in popular optical media #photohistory #mediaarcheology #motionpictures #chronophotography
Katılım Aralık 2021
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We mourn all the film-makers, photographers and their Ukrainian fixers who have died chasing Truth. #WeStandWithUkraine
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We have a website now: wutheringheightsrediscovered.net Not much to look at yet, but we'll be launching it properly on Monday 25th May.
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This is usually referred to as a 22 page script. It’s actually over 160 pages and an absolute treasure. @BFI @markcousinsfilm @SightSoundmag @BritishSilentFF @criterionchannl @leedsfilmfest
WutheringHeightsRediscovered@WHRediscovered
@LIFF @Markcousinsfilm A page from Eliot Stannard's screenplay for the lost 1920 adaptation of Wuthering Heights (image courtesy of @BronteParsonage) Please follow, as we explore the film in our travelling exhibition starting on June 6th as part of @LeedsLit .
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@WHRediscovered @BronteParsonage The screenwriter of this adaptation was Eliot Stannard who would go on to write several screenplays for silent Hitchcock movies. We think this exhibition may contain some forgotten treasures!
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We'll be touring our ever-changing exhibition on the lost 1920 adaptation of Wuthering Heights, and would love for you to join us. Please watch this space! (image courtesy of @BronteParsonage )

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Artists Chris Czainski and Tracie Johnson examining the first location for our #WutheringHeights Rediscovered exhibition - the fabulous #Warley Phone Box Museum! The exhibition, about the lost 1920’s adaptation of Emily Bronte’s novel, will open on 6th June as part of @LeedsLit

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@Film_Foundation Starting in June, we'll be touring our exhibition on the lost 1920 adaptation of Wuthering Heights. A single surviving screenplay; a scrapbook of images; an adventure. Please watch this space! (image courtesy of @BronteParsonage )

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The screenplay for A V Bramble's Wuthering Heights was written by Eliot Stannard who also wrote the classic The Lodger for #AlfredHitchcock The only known surviving screenplay for Wuthering Heights will be informing our own touring exhibition on this lost film.

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The Cinema Museum is a gem. An Aladdin’s cave of movie memorabilia in the old workhouse where Charlie Chaplin was once sent.
Irfan Shah@TheShadowTraps
This was a lovely day at a glorious venue. You must seek out the #CinemaMuseum sometime!
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Our Wuthering Heights exhibition draws on the only known surviving screenplay of the 1920 adaptation of Emily’s novel. It was written by Eliot Stannard who would write 8 #AlfredHitchcock silents. (Image: Bronte Parsonage Museum) @BritishSilentFF @bryonydixon

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We’ve just given a short talk at the #BritishSilentFilmFestival Symposium which was held at the gloriously eccentric Cinema Museum in London. The building was once the workhouse to which #CharlieChaplin was sent and is now a temple to the silver screen.

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My latest Patreon post with a downloadable script for my latest talk. patreon.com/posts/cradle-o…
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patreon.com/posts/photo-wi… A new Patreon post in anticipation of Episode Forty-One of The Shadow Traps podcast.
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patreon.com/posts/le-princ… My latest Patreon post. New podcast episode two thirds done - watch this space!
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@leedsfilmfest @FilmHubNorth @markcousinsfilm Sending this into the ether! We hope it's going to be a beautiful little project...
Early Cinema Research Group@EarlyCinemaLBU
Our first post(!) and an announcement: our next exhibition 'Lost and Imagined Films' begins on the 6th of October. Please watch this space for more information. leedsbeckett.ac.uk/research/larc/…
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My new Patreon post is available now to subscribers. A short Introduction to the Cradle of Light project, a history of the first 25,000 years of cinema! patreon.com/posts/cradle-o…
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