Patrick Russell

@BFI curator | AV heritage: documentary, sponsored film, corporate vid & more... | country music (also indie, blues, crooners...) | history, art, metaphysics...

[Bloomsbury Film & Media @BloomsburyMedia]

In a vivid new account of the dawn of film in Britain, film historian and curator @BryonyDixon introduces us to Britain's first cinematic pioneers.

The Story of Victorian Cinema is out now: https://t.co/9u0bparirZ

[Robin Baker @robinalexbaker]

2/2 Erulkar and Krish's filmmaking is also celebrated in @BFI #FilmOnFilm Festival with programmes of their short films and a free discussion of Erulkar's life and work by @RosCranston
https://t.co/l2OXfxzqYn

[Andrew Burke @aabwpg]

Something Nice to Eat is a favourite, and I would love to see the other films. So much interesting overlap in terms of women making sponsored and industrial films in the UK and Canada.

[Robin Baker @robinalexbaker]

2/2 Following his death 7 years ago today, my colleagues @NonFicPatrick and @MaggiHurt paid tribute to Krish and his remarkable legacy https://t.co/jzsj1XUAws

[Robin Baker @robinalexbaker]

The great documentary filmmaker John Krish visits the National Film Theatre (now @BFI Southbank) in 2003 - photos by Peter Everard Smith. We're celebrating his centenary in BFI #FilmOnFilm Festival with a programme of 4 of his films https://t.co/xp4GHqsSZ4 1/2

[Patrick Russell @NonFicPatrick]

@mcnatch @muninnherself Pavlov's dog...

[Patrick Russell @NonFicPatrick]

@muninnherself @mcnatch She and her sometime husband George Jones were IMO in the front rank of 20th c US popular singers- up there with Holliday, Sinatra, Sam Cooke etc but rarely placed in that pantheon because country often taken less seriously than other genres

[Patrick Russell @NonFicPatrick]

@mcnatch & lush is the word when it comes to Tammy's 70s LPs (as produced by Billy Sherrill; and lush the word in sadly more ways than one for George Jones' LPs produced by BS in same period..) Will check out. Well done for enticing me back into the limelight of Twitter, if but briefly...

[Patrick Russell @NonFicPatrick]

Another rare return to Twitter for me- to highlight upcoming screenings & other cool stuff that my colleague Ros has been overseeing, on vital subject of women in British documentary making- past & present. Incl some great #BFINationalArchive restorations. Follow Ros for more

[Ros Cranston @RosCranston]

Looking forward to the first screening of our splendid new restorations in The Camera is Ours: Britain's Women Documentary Makers season @BFI Southbank on Thu 3 Mar, incl. The English Inn (1941), directorial debut of Muriel Box @_CarolMorley https://t.co/xRWgRbdGZe

[Ros Cranston @RosCranston]

Looking forward to the first screening of our splendid new restorations in The Camera is Ours: Britain's Women Documentary Makers season @BFI Southbank on Thu 3 Mar, incl. The English Inn (1941), directorial debut of Muriel Box @_CarolMorley https://t.co/xRWgRbdGZe

[Patrick Russell @NonFicPatrick]

Briefly breaking long Twitter silence to celebrate publication today of @stewjeez' brilliant book The Story of British Animation. 1st in a new BFI/Bloomsbury series British Screen Stories - exploring true width, breadth, depth of UK film/TV histories https://t.co/n8Y6w44N3M

[Patrick Russell @NonFicPatrick]

Have yourself a curatorial Christmas. Seasonal selections from the BFI National Archive, gift-wrapped by a few of its staff https://t.co/o2Ra8aLiK3

[Patrick Russell @NonFicPatrick]

@Illuminations @robinalexbaker @RosCranston @KatyMcGahan And to you - a happy and a safe one.

[Patrick Russell @NonFicPatrick]

@Illuminations @robinalexbaker @RosCranston @KatyMcGahan Anyway an amazingly interesting interaction between two media worlds, thanks for sharing a great read.

[Patrick Russell @NonFicPatrick]

@Illuminations @robinalexbaker @RosCranston @KatyMcGahan 2dly, all filming underground required going thru a bureaucratic NCB permissions process. Not imposs the BBC got this permission to do own filming. At least as likely the play used NCB footage- its access to it as you say prob eased by the Erulkar connection. Tho we'll never know

[The Running Kind: Listening to Merle Haggard @dlcantwell]

I put together this playlist of Pride's lesser-known tracks, Charley Pride: Beyond the Hits. Hardly complete--his catalog is DEEP, people--but when you get through re-listening to the singles... #charleypride https://t.co/UsBkhU2EiM

[The Running Kind: Listening to Merle Haggard @dlcantwell]

“It’s my music, too.” R.I.P. Charley Pride, one of the greatest country acts, and one of the greatest popular artists, we’ll ever be so lucky to know. I tried to get down a bit of why he matters (present tense) in this essay from last year. #charleypride https://t.co/O5fbTohUA0

[James Harrison @jamesmjharrison]

... Peter was one of the UK’s great filmmakers + the man behind one of Paul Robeson’s best moments captured on film. Paul Robeson sings to Scottish Miners (1949) (filmed at Woolmet Colliery). RIP Peter! Obit on the Guardian website: https://t.co/5e04gnsJ4F

[Patrick Russell @NonFicPatrick]

@jamesmjharrison @DrMatthewSweet @TalkingPicsTV PS James thanks so much for sharing the obit for Peter P and your pics from the Timeshift shoot- remember that day well! Btw Peter and John K knew one another- John did a couple of Mining Reviews in the DATA years (on a freelance basis, he wasn't in DATA). Have a great day.

[Patrick Russell @NonFicPatrick]

@jamesmjharrison @DrMatthewSweet @TalkingPicsTV His loss was our gain as he soon left World Wide for Leon Clore which led to the 5 years or so of documentary shorts that (I'd argue) are still the peak of his great career.