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| | | | The Abject Archive One of the things I find most fascinating about the pre-release advertising for They Shall Not Grow Old, is the way that it seems unable to argue for the project without at the same time rendering the archive footage from which it is constructed abject. To erase, in fact, the role and... | |
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| | | | Laurence Binyon's poem 'For the Fallen' celebrates the immortality of the WWI soldiers who died in service. "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:/ Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn." The word contemn isn't used very often - it means "to treat with contempt". The poem, popularly... | |
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| | | | Here's the text of a talk I gave at the fabulous Bo'ness Hippodrome Silent Film Festival ('Hipfest') which happens every year. It's a great few days of celebrating silent films in Scotland and across the world. Highly recommeded! Here's their website I was asked to select and introduce some clips from films held in the... | |
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