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The most important recent book about early cinema – or rather, early motion pictures, is The Kinetoscope: A British History. Based heavily on extensive original research it describes and explains t...

From 1988 until its closure in 1999, the British Film Institute’s groundbreaking Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) on London’s South Bank attracted several million visitors and critical acclaim. This account is authored by a member of the Curatorial team (1989–1996), and presented in three parts. First is a review of precedents and influences behind the project’s development and critical reception, including a review of its collections and education. Next is a reflection on two temporary exhibitions, home movies, and the problem of updating exhibitions, given priorities and attendance figures. Finally, MOMI’s closure and reinvention as MOMI 2 is considered in light of different approaches to media museums. The history of BFI’s MOMI is set within broader challenges of time-based media as a museum subject, and the article includes observations on practical considerations and their impact on conceptual and academic concerns. The author privileges exhibitions and displays on which he had a curatorial ...

www.victorian‐cinema.net In 1996, the British Film Institute published Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey. The book contained over 280 biographies of those who collectively could be ...

The ‘triumph of modern science’ here so floridly trumpeted was the photographic portrait flick book. This article will concern itself with the various motion picture systems (other than the conventional amateur cine camera-projector combination) that have been developed specifically to provide animated photographic portraits. Most of these systems were based on the flick book or miniature mutoscope.