The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema Early Twentieth-Century Spectacle and Melodrama

This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through an in-depth history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company - also known as 'B&C'- in the years 1908-1916, the period when it became one of Britain's leading film producers. It provi...

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Main Author: Turvey, Gerry (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Exeter University of Exeter Press 2021
Series:Exeter Studies in Film History
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