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Background imageFilm Collection: Star Loco; A scene from the Ealing Comedy, Titfield Thunderbolt

Star Loco; A scene from the Ealing Comedy, Titfield Thunderbolt
6th September 1952: A scene from the Ealing comedy, Titfield Thunderbolt with the Thunderbolt played by the Lion a 114 year old locomotive lent by the Liverpool Engineering Society which originally

Background imageFilm Collection: Movie Theater Marquee

Movie Theater Marquee
A huge crowd gathers outside the Warner Brothers theater on Wiltshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for a film premiere, 1930s. The marquee reads in part Premiere of Premieres; Grand Opening Tonight

Background imageFilm Collection: King Kong

King Kong
1933: The giant ape, star of the Radio Picture King Kong, shown in comparison to eight normal sized apes, to emphasize its colossal size. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Illustration, crime scene, man in street being fired at with shotgun from car window

Illustration, crime scene, man in street being fired at with shotgun from car window, both men in suits and fedora hats, pair of onlookers in background

Background imageFilm Collection: Pete The Pup

Pete The Pup
circa 1930: Pete the Pup known all over the world through his film work in Hollywood comedies, especially the Our Gang series. At the height of his career Pete was insured for ?10, 000

Background imageFilm Collection: Central Park at Night

Central Park at Night
square black and white photograph of the el dorado building from within central park at night

Background imageFilm Collection: Tokyo Cinemas

Tokyo Cinemas
A street of motion picture theatres in Asakusa Park, Tokyo, circa 1930. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Make-Up Artiste

Make-Up Artiste
circa 1928: A make-up artiste at work on a model of a head. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Applying Make-Up

Applying Make-Up
circa 1928: A make-up artiste applying make-up to a film actress face. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Making Up Actor

Making Up Actor
circa 1928: A make-up artiste applying make-up to a film actors face. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Riding High

Riding High
circa 1930: Riding horses through snow-clad mountains. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Sound Operator

Sound Operator
circa 1930: A technician at work on the new recording equipment at Twickenham Studios, London. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Making Up Actress

Making Up Actress
circa 1928: A make-up artiste applying make-up to a film actress face. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: After Dinner Coffee

After Dinner Coffee
circa 1926: A group of men drinking coffee in a restaurant. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Beg For Forgiveness

Beg For Forgiveness
circa 1930: A woman crouching down to give her naughty dog a good talking-to. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Off Duty Usherette

Off Duty Usherette
circa 1954: A young woman talks to a boy friend after her evenings work as a cinema usherette. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7045 - Usherette - unpub

Background imageFilm Collection: Film Projector

Film Projector
November 1928: An operator explaining the workings of a talking film projector to staff at the Mayfair Hotel, London, where an all-British talking film is to be shown as dinnertime entertainment

Background imageFilm Collection: Cute Pup Pete

Cute Pup Pete
circa 1934: Pete the Pup known all over the world through his film work in Hollywood comedies, especially the Our Gang series. At the height of his career Pete was insured for ?10, 000

Background imageFilm Collection: New Gallery Cinema

New Gallery Cinema
1929: The New Gallery Cinema, complete with doorman, on Regent Street, London, showing Movietone Follies of 1929. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Extras On Parade

Extras On Parade
circa 1929: A group of hopeful film starlets pose as extras at the Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios under the watchful eye of the director, Clifford Robertson. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Prop Shop Bikes

Prop Shop Bikes
4th January 1946: Tagged bicycles in the Warner Brothers Film Studios Prop Shop. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Fern (Dryopteris dilatata), X-ray

Fern (Dryopteris dilatata), X-ray
Fern (Dryopteris dilatata), coloured X-ray

Background imageFilm Collection: Film Stills

Film Stills
1956: Two women looking at film stills outside a cinema in Guatemala City, capital of Guatemala. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Pearl White

Pearl White
circa 1926: English film star, actress Pearl White (1889 - 1938) driving a horse and trap in the grounds of her house in Long Island, New York. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Mobile Film Crew

Mobile Film Crew
April 1929: Cameramen filming from a Rolls Royce in Piccadilly, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes
circa 1928: A dressing room full of chorus girls between scenes during the filming of Broadway. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Film Shoot

Film Shoot
8th May 1934: Cameramen on the railway track getting a shot of the Aberdonian express train, with an actor disembarking on to a tender, for the film Night Mail, directed by Herbert Smith

Background imageFilm Collection: Astoria Studio

Astoria Studio
circa 1920: The exterior of the W.R. Hearst Astoria Film Studio, located in Astoria, Queens, New York. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Photographic frames on two film strips depicting action sequence of man riding horse

Photographic frames on two film strips depicting action sequence of man riding horse

Background imageFilm Collection: Old Fashioned Peep Show

Old Fashioned Peep Show
A boy looks through the viewer atop a peep show machine which plays the erotic International Mutoscope Reel Company production Hot Tango, early 20th Century

Background imageFilm Collection: Jack Wild

Jack Wild
English child actor Jack Wild (1952 - 2006) on a swing in his local park during a lunch break from the Speak Stage School, October 1968

Background imageFilm Collection: Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex
Russian born composer, conductor, pianist and writer Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) conducts a BBC performance of his opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex, with text by French poet

Background imageFilm Collection: Ancient macro camera

Ancient macro camera
Ancient camera for macro photography

Background imageFilm Collection: Old Camera plate

Old Camera plate
Illustration of an Old Camera plate

Background imageFilm Collection: Cross-section diagram of a cine camera

Cross-section diagram of a cine camera

Background imageFilm Collection: Single person in cinema watching credits

Single person in cinema watching credits

Background imageFilm Collection: Uprooted Tree at Saint Helena

Uprooted Tree at Saint Helena
An uprooted tree after hurricane Mathew at Saint Helena Island

Background imageFilm Collection: Waterfall, national park Plitvicer lakes, Lika-Senj, Croatia

Waterfall, national park Plitvicer lakes, Lika-Senj, Croatia

Background imageFilm Collection: National park Plitvicer lakes, Lika-Senj, Croatia

National park Plitvicer lakes, Lika-Senj, Croatia

Background imageFilm Collection: Ait Benhaddou Kasbah in morning light, Morocco

Ait Benhaddou Kasbah in morning light, Morocco
aOt Benhaddou is a fortified city, or ksar, along the former caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakech in present-day Morocco

Background imageFilm Collection: Rocky landscape in the Old Paria Movie Set, Utah, USA, America

Rocky landscape in the Old Paria Movie Set, Utah, USA, America

Background imageFilm Collection: Kinematograph Camera

Kinematograph Camera
July 1912: The Kinematograph Camera, capable of filming in colour, seen on a roof top. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Filming Take-Off

Filming Take-Off
A US Army cinematographer filming a US Nieuport 28 biplane taking off during the summer counter-offensive. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland
US composer of ballets, film scores, operas and symphonies Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990) conducting. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: Gun poking out from behind curtain

Gun poking out from behind curtain
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1940s: Mans hand holding pistol, pointing out from behind curtain. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageFilm Collection: B. F. Keiths Hippodrome

B. F. Keiths Hippodrome
Exterior view of B.F. Keiths Hippodrome, a massive theatre designed for stage productions, vaudeville, and circus performances, and later adapted to screen films, 756 Sixth Avenue, New York

Background imageFilm Collection: High, Wide, and Handsome At Paramount Theatre

High, Wide, and Handsome At Paramount Theatre
High-angle view of crowds waiting on the street outside the Paramount Theatre in Times Square before a screening of the musical High, Wide, and Handsome, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, New York

Background imageFilm Collection: Long-Woolled Sheep

Long-Woolled Sheep
Long-woolled sheep in field near Kielder, one of the many villages situated on the Tynes Bank, 21st October 1950. Original Publication



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