Notes

"In association with the Film Archive."
Accompanied by DVD of selected films from the Film Archive, compiled by Diane McAllen and Mark Sweeney
Table of contents: 1. The magic of moving pictures : film making 1895-1918 -- 2. The rise of fiction : between the wars -- 3. Non-fiction films : between the wars -- 4. Political and alternative film making : 1940 to 1950 -- 5. From Holland to Holyoake : film in the 1950s and 1960s -- 6. Waking from a fretful sleep : film in the 1970s -- 7. Boom times the early 1980s -- 8. After the boom : the second half of the 1980s -- 9. New currents in the mainstream : the 1990s -- 10. The 'Jackson effect' : the late 1990s to 2005 -- 11. Into the blue : film making in the early twenty-first century