Object of the week
Object of the week: The milk churns that rewrote film history
How much history is it possible to hide inside a milk churn?
By Rebecca Vick
Object of the week: The milk churns that rewrote film history
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Inside the Archive #46: Networking on the continent and interviewing James Mackay
By Grace Johnston and Alex Prideaux
Object of the week
Object of the week: What’s a Kalamazoo?
By Jez Stewart
Object of the week
The letter that made Audrey Hepburn a star
By Nathalie Morris
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Inside the Archive #45: Heritage Open Day reflections part 2
By Elena Nepoti, Eleanor Watkins and others
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Inside the Archive #44: Heritage Open Day reflections part one
By Ella Ferguson, Adam Dixon and others
Object of the week
Object of the week: production design for the Hindi classic Pakeezah by British sketch artist Ivor Beddoes
By Nathalie Morris
Features
Phantom rides and kisses in tunnels: the Victorian craze for train films
By Bryony Dixon
Rarities of British cinema
Knives out: remembering Murder in the Family, a forgotten drama from the golden age of detective fiction
By Josephine Botting
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Inside the Archive #43: filmmaking in Hertfordshire and Super Kevin unwrapped
By Paola Martucci and Jez Stewart
Object of the week
The unique teaser posters for Ealing’s post-war émigré drama Frieda
By Nathalie Morris
Features
Railway 200 on screen: British cinema’s great train journey
By Steven Foxon
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Inside the Archive #42: reporting from Locarno Film Festival
By James Bell, Josephine Botting and others
Object of the week
Behind-the-scenes photos of documentary pioneer Humphrey Jennings filming alt-history drama The Silent Village
By Nathalie Morris
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Inside the Archive #41: Swedish collaborations and forthcoming attractions
By Elena Nepoti, Chris Stenner and others
Object of the week
Henry VIII and His Six Wives: a costume drawing for the 1970s historical epic
By Nathalie Morris
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Inside the Archive #40: Data defence and Scottish travails
By Will Pook and Sinéad Beverland
Object of the week
The 3D printer that helps us recreate vintage film equipment
By Ian Shand
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Inside the Archive #39: ‘Undocumented’ workshop and 35mm prints at BFI Southbank
By Alex Prideaux and Milo Holmes
Object of the week
The annotated shooting script for The Third Man, minus the ‘cuckoo clock’ speech
By Nathalie Morris
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Inside the Archive #38: Harold Brown and the Archive at 90
By Alex Prideaux
Object of the week
The shooting script for Sally Potter’s Orlando
By Nathalie Morris
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Inside the Archive #37: Firebreaks and Graveyard Shifts
By John Carino, Jo Molyneux and others
Object of the week
Camels attending a cinema in Sutton in 1962
By Kay Eldridge and Alex Prideaux
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Inside the Archive #36: From Manchester to The Hague
By Caitlin Lynch and Tom Wilson
Object of the week
Alan Whicker’s cue cards for interviewing Sean Connery on You Only Live Twice
By Nathalie Morris
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Inside the Archive #35: What is multispectral scanning?
By Elena Nepoti and Rebecca Vick
Object of the week
Object of the week: Harold Brown’s handmade film printer, the Mark IV
By Alex Prideaux
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Inside the Archive #34: How we’re cataloguing Indian cinema history
By Jesse Woodd, Kitty Robertson and others
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Inside the Archive #33: Archiving in Amsterdam
By Kelly Hyams and Alex Prideaux