Richard Farmer
@rg_farmer
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Film historian, tea drinker, archive fetishist
Joined September 2019
Sound the new article klaxon again! My @studiotec_proj piece on the death and afterlife of Denham film studios is now available for FREE in Industrial Archaeology Review. Features a wonderful picture of a pig in a mail coach and my usual erudite musings. https://t.co/cqh3Kox9U8
tandfonline.com
London Film Productions’ Denham Studios were the largest and most advanced in Britain when they opened in 1936. Despite producing some of the best-known British-made films of the next 15 years, the...
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Sound the new article klaxon! My latest piece for @studiotec_proj, on detective novels set in interwar British film studios, is now available in the Journal of British Cinema and Television. Come for the murders, stay for the analysis. https://t.co/4XGfrotvh4
euppublishing.com
British film studios enjoyed unusually high prominence in the 1930s, both as places where popular culture was produced and as elements of popular culture in their own right. It is unsurprising, then,...
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Great article by Chris O' Rourke in latest SCREEN on Robert Allen, a fascinating figure who worked at Denham
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An important date in, British studio history. @studiotec_proj
It's our 88th anniversary today - that's nearly nine decades of storytelling! #OnThisDay in 1936 Pinewood opened its gates and since then we have welcomed thousands of filmmakers onto the lot. Here’s to many more years of cinematic excellence #ShotAtPinewood
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A new article! (not open access but if you can't get it through your library, let me know) 'Reflections in a Golden Eye: Exploring the Photographic Art of Margaret Nolan and Shirley Eaton' 🌟🌟🌟 Really pleased to be part of this great Bond special issue
euppublishing.com
This article offers a new perspective on the much-discussed phenomenon of the ‘Bond girl’ through an exploration of photographic artwork produced in later life by two notable Bond girls: the two...
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More @studiotec_proj fabulousness from m'colleague @Eleanor_Halsall! Come for the detailed history of the Tonkreuz, stay for the wonderful illustrations!
I've written about Germany's first dedicated sound film studio, the Tonkreuz as part of our #Studiotec project @stud
https://t.co/8ZxjF6LZjP
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I've written about Germany's first dedicated sound film studio, the Tonkreuz as part of our #Studiotec project @stud
https://t.co/8ZxjF6LZjP
journal.eahn.org
Ufa’s Tonkreuz, designed by architect Otto Kohtz, was Germany’s first sound film studio. Completed in 1929, the building continues to be used to this day for film and television productions. This...
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The only one of the 'royal animals' design to make it into circulation was the ‘attractive and pert’ wren, which appeared for decades on the farthing.
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Some of the designs were eventually rejected as insufficiently British (the eagle was associated with the USA and only the red grouse was unique to Britain), or too political (the dove had strong pacifist connotations).
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The new Charles III coins remind me of the Edward VIII 'royal animals' designs proposed to the Mint by Harold Wilson Parker. These were to include stags, swans and sturgeons - all animals associated with the Crown. https://t.co/llPVqnQUis
theguardian.com
Design with bees on reverse, part of collection inspired by plants and animals, was voted people’s favourite
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Is it a coincidence that my blog on a film starring animals from London Zoo appears at the same time as Banksy's London Zoo series? Am I Banksy? I'm not saying that I am. But I'm also not saying that I'm not. Anyway, I hope you enjoy reading about Ming the panda's film fame.
Read all about when the 'panda craze' hit the studios in Richard Farmer's latest STUDIOTEC post! https://t.co/3LKbyOhzEp
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This sequence from the 1943 film Thursday's Child was shot in the canteen at Welwyn Studios. Might be of interest to @ReelStreets
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I did a thing for @SensesofCinema all about the British filmmaker Muriel Box https://t.co/64RC3Wb6Xi
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The legendary #BrayStudios, which started it's production life as Exclusive Studios, has been bought by @AmazonMGMStudio Happy to see a new chapter begun! https://t.co/t7DQ9cKdC0
bbc.co.uk
The US-based company films regularly at Bray Studios in Berkshire and has now bought the site.
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Honoured to win the Screen Essay Award for my research on costume design and making. Huge thanks to Screen's editorial board for their fantastic support and the amazing women who costumed British cinema 🎥 🪡 🧵
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Screen Essay Award 2023 is Melanie Bell, with her article Feminist histories of costuming film: Gordon Conway, 1930s British cinema and the collaborative world of Mayfair sewing, Screen (64:2), Summer 2023.
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Here I am with @norloll at the @TheGardenCinema talking about Muriel Box, after a screening of her brilliant meta-romcom The Passionate Stranger (part of the ongoing Women Aren't Funny season)
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This just in from @EdinburghUP: Armchair Cinema, an essential addition to the library of any film historian!
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