Tag Archives: EYE Filmmuseum

Silent cinema from the vaults to the world: an interview with film archival scholar Grazia Ingravalle

Posted on 22 April 2016 by silentsplease

Silent cinema is gaining more prominence and availability than ever before—but how does the work of archives and cinémathèques drive the way we perceive it? Grazia Ingravalle is a doctoral student at the University of St Andrews in Scotland whose … Continue reading →

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Book review: Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory: The Adventurous Years of Film (1907-1916)

Posted on 4 April 2015 by silentsplease

The Desmet collection is a key jewel in the crown of EYE Filmmuseum: a huge and relatively intact corpus of films, posters, promotional materials, and company records deriving from the business activities of Jean Desmet, a key film distributor and theatre … Continue reading →

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