So the WAC campaign gets told that the reason for BBC policy change is to redirect resources to audiences and create 'Content Moments.' The Attenborough 100 celebrations are one of those. So it sticks in the craw to see no promotion of Life On Earth having a complete overhaul for iplayer. (1/3)

The Sunday dozen for Monday The General Strike + Walt Disney, Alexander Kluge + Edith Piaf, Canterbury + the Habsburg International, Richard Dawkins + Anton Jäger, All the President's Men + art of the Obama presidential center, Henry Moore + more... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

Marey memorialised A chance encounter with a delightful monument to Étinne-Jules Marey in backstreets of Beaune. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/marey-memori...

Always worth checking. There’s a good piece on one of my favourite films, All the President’s Men, here as well as 11 other pieces worth reading.

Marey memorialised A chance encounter with a delightful monument to Étinne-Jules Marey in backstreets of Beaune. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/marey-memori...

The Sunday dozen for Monday The General Strike + Walt Disney, Alexander Kluge + Edith Piaf, Canterbury + the Habsburg International, Richard Dawkins + Anton Jäger, All the President's Men + art of the Obama presidential center, Henry Moore + more... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

Slightly diminish a book The Portrait of a Lad

The Sunday dozen The General Strike and Walt Disney, Alexander Kluge and Edith Piaf, Canterbury and the Habsburg International, Richard Dawkins and Anton Jäger, All the President's Men and the art of the Obama presidential center, Henry Moore and more... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

The Sunday dozen The General Strike and Walt Disney, Alexander Kluge and Edith Piaf, Canterbury and the Habsburg International, Richard Dawkins and Anton Jäger, All the President's Men and the art of the Obama presidential center, Henry Moore and more... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only: Pennies from Heaven Hill Street Blues Civilisation Lou Grant Danger Man The Man from UNCLE Arena The Wire The Good Wife Monty Python’s Flying Circus Play for Today An Age of Kings The Eleventh Hour Homeland The Bureau

Wandering through the backstreets of Beaune we come across a rather wonderful monument to the late 19C chronophotographer Etienne-Jules Marey.

Wandering through the backstreets of Beaune we come across a rather wonderful monument to the late 19C chronophotographer Etienne-Jules Marey.

Absolutely scenes here. Hubbub of anticipation from the street.

Prompted by a recent @ballet-voices.bsky.social podcast, I look at early television broadcasts of Ninette de Valois' Checkmate, and this gives me the excuse to feature a favourite image from Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of British Television. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/checkmate-on...

Registration is open for The Cultures of Early Television two-day University of Westminster conference in early July. Attendance is free, thanks to invaluable support from @britishacademy.bsky.social More details and link to the registration page here: www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/register-for...

Prompted by a recent @ballet-voices.bsky.social podcast, I look at early television broadcasts of Ninette de Valois' Checkmate, and this gives me the excuse to feature a favourite image from Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of British Television. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/checkmate-on...

Registration is open for The Cultures of Early Television two-day University of Westminster conference in early July. Attendance is free, thanks to invaluable support from @britishacademy.bsky.social More details and link to the registration page here: www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/register-for...

The Government ten days ago released a new strategic vision for archives which makes a strong and convincing case for their central importance. Using it as a yardstick shows just how far short of best practice the BBC Written Archives Centre falls. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/new-strategi...

The Sunday dozen for Monday Public benches and micro-dramas; photographic materiality and Confederate monuments; DTF St Louis and David Adjaye; Victor Serge and Jan Morris; civil war, AI and digital fragility - and a wonderful Anna Karina clip. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

The Government ten days ago released a new strategic vision for archives which makes a strong and convincing case for their central importance. Using it as a yardstick shows just how far short of best practice the BBC Written Archives Centre falls. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/new-strategi...

The Sunday dozen Public benches and micro-dramas; photographic materiality and Confederate monuments; DTF St Louis and David Adjaye; Victor Serge and Jan Morris; civil war, AI and digital fragility - and a wonderful Anna Karina clip. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

Honoured to be mentioned @thetimes.com guide today [£] celebrating the BBC Ibsen archive @bbciplayer.bsky.social and especially the 1953 Lady from the Sea - thanks to @andrewmale.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

The Sunday dozen Public benches and micro-dramas; photographic materiality and Confederate monuments; DTF St Louis and David Adjaye; Victor Serge and Jan Morris; civil war, AI and digital fragility - and a wonderful Anna Karina clip. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

Honoured to be mentioned @thetimes.com guide today [£] celebrating the BBC Ibsen archive @bbciplayer.bsky.social and especially the 1953 Lady from the Sea - thanks to @andrewmale.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

This is a very important point. Parts of the BBC use archive well and prove there is an audience for chance discovery and just quirkier stuff. The internal archive search facility has made this so much easier to do. It just needs to be cultural.

*THREAD* Two of the BBC's most significant and celebrated single dramas are to be repeated in the coming weeks. All-film productions, NEW transfers. In recent past people want to know about that work and it's a great reason to watch something again - but will the press office pull their finger out?

Taking a walk through #IWMLondon 's new exhibition #BeautyAndDestruction: Wartime London in Art. A thread...🧵 A few images that leapt out at me, starting with Muirhead Bone's chalk and wash 'Building a Caisson for Mulberry Harbour, 1944'

Spending the day trying to read documents on a microfiche viewer; media archaeology-inspired nostalgia did not last long.

I know we all need to be sceptical about robot videos, but this really does seem amazing www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Hardly noticed but at the end of last week the Government vision for archives in England was launched. No money attached as far as I know. Aim is for archives to be 'at the heart of society' through being accessible, inclusive and sustainable www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

Adored Wooster Group's 'Nayatt School Redux' at Coronet Theatre tonight; so clever, so skilful and yet so simple. About memory + the moment, video + theatre, time present + time past, and above all the possibilities of performance. Wonderful (and sold out). www.thecoronettheatre.com/whats-on/the...

Adored Wooster Group's 'Nayatt School Redux' at Coronet Theatre tonight; so clever, so skilful and yet so simple. About memory + the moment, video + theatre, time present + time past, and above all the possibilities of performance. Wonderful (and sold out). www.thecoronettheatre.com/whats-on/the...

Someone explain to me why on earth I should vote Labour on 7 May… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Sunday dozen for Monday www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

The Sunday dozen The late, great David Bordwell, '90s corporate thrillers + '70s British animation; Radu Jupe, George Orwell + Angela McRobbie; the new LACMA + Queen Elizabeth II's style; The Beach Boys + the late, great Mike Westbrook; and more... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

The Sunday dozen The late, great David Bordwell, '90s corporate thrillers + '70s British animation; Radu Jupe, George Orwell + Angela McRobbie; the new LACMA + Queen Elizabeth II's style; The Beach Boys + the late, great Mike Westbrook; and more... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

Another plug for this, which in addition to its specific tale attempts to start a discussion about the importance of seeing film and television histories as intimately entangled - and in this way reshaping the ways in which these histories have to date been largely developed separately.

THE CULTURES OF EARLY TELEVISION Registration is now open for this two-day University of Westminster conference about television before the WWII in Britain, the United States, continental Europe and the Soviet Union. Registration is free via Eventbrite here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cultur...

THE CULTURES OF EARLY TELEVISION Registration is now open for this two-day University of Westminster conference about television before the WWII in Britain, the United States, continental Europe and the Soviet Union. Registration is free via Eventbrite here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cultur...

Scaffolding all down from one of my favourite London facades, Tournament House at Paddington.

Scaffolding all down from one of my favourite London facades, Tournament House at Paddington.

Very happy to reunite Magic Rays of Light with the original of the painting used on the cover, Harry Rutherford’s Starlight at BBC Written Archive Centre, Caversham.

Very happy to reunite Magic Rays of Light with the original of the painting used on the cover, Harry Rutherford’s Starlight at BBC Written Archive Centre, Caversham.

A fine morning for an AP visit

Another plug for this, which in addition to its specific tale attempts to start a discussion about the importance of seeing film and television histories as intimately entangled - and in this way reshaping the ways in which these histories have to date been largely developed separately.

British television in the endtimes of silent cinema, 1928-30 My words at Friday's British Silent Film Festival Symposium, arguing for the need to see cinema and TV histories as intimately entangled, in the late 1920s but also from the late 19C to today. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/british-tele...

The Sunday dozen for Monday Bruce and (Richard) Brody, the 1930s Film Society and Jia Zhangke, Mint and The Pitt, the General Strike and Virginia Woolf, Artemis II and Altman, a story about French road signs, and a great cover of John Cage, and more... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

British television in the endtimes of silent cinema, 1928-30 My words at Friday's British Silent Film Festival Symposium, arguing for the need to see cinema and TV histories as intimately entangled, in the late 1920s but also from the late 19C to today. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/british-tele...

The Sunday dozen Mint and The Pitt, a modernist brochure and an AI video, Virginia Woolf and the General Strike, Artemis II and road signs in France, and a pitch-perfect cover version of John Cage. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

The Sunday dozen Mint and The Pitt, a modernist brochure and an AI video, Virginia Woolf and the General Strike, Artemis II and road signs in France, and a pitch-perfect cover version of John Cage. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...