Kevin Brownlow
Also Known As: Кевин Браунлоу
Biography: Kevin Brownlow is a British film director, producer and historian.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Crowborough, Sussex, England, UK
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Birthday: June 02, 1938
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
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Cartoon Carnival
Overview: Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue pre-sound cartoons from obscurity and screen them to new, appreciative audiences.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-01
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Editors on Editing
Overview: Film editing initially began as a woman's art in France. As veteran film editor, Dede Allen, tell it, "They thought that women were good at little details, like sewing." Before editing became a craft, women were the earliest technicians. Today, the long tradition of women editors carries on.
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Original Language: en
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Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals
Overview: Documentary about Hollywood during the silent film era.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Presenting The Gold Rush
Overview: In 1942, Charles Chaplin released his definitive sound version of THE GOLD RUSH, effectively abandoning the original 1925 silent version of his film. In this documentary short subject, created by The Criterion Collection, Kevin Brownlow and Chaplin biographer and archivist Jeffrey Vance recount the journey of this comic masterpiece.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-12
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Cinerama Adventure
Overview: A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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White Thunder
Overview: A riveting account of the tragic adventure of filmmaker Varick Frissell and his filming of "The Viking" (1931) and the tragic events that befell that adventure into early film-making.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-16
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Searching for the Lost Pochta
Overview: Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound version of one famous Soviet cartoon. It's "The Post" made by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky in 1929 and based on a poem by Samuil Marshak. At first "The Post" has been released in a silent form and later Tsekhanovsky remade it with experimental music and narration by Daniil Kharms. At that moment it was the first Soviet sound cartoon and it was a success all over the world. Russian film studies consider "The Post" to be of great importance and artistic value but unfortunately it's still lost. Only the silent version and the 1964 remake are still known and available.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-12-09
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The Original Action Hero
Overview: The film will track the evolution of the action hero in films and how aspects and perspectives have changed about them. Along with Stallone, it will also star Arnold Schwarzenegger, Luke Evans, and Charley Palmer Rothwell among others.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
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The Chronoscope
Overview: A documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that could see into the past.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-01
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Silents, Please! A Love Letter to the Silent Era
Overview: A TCM original production on why silent movies matter, featuring new interviews with Honorary Academy Award winner Kevin Brownlow, filmmaker Bill Morrison, TCM Silent Sunday Nights host Jacqueline Stewart, and film collector/expert Shane Fleming. They discuss the beauty, cultural importance, and long-standing impact that silent film holds in its celluloid.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-15
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Three Hours That Shook the World: Observations on Intolerance
Overview: Three Hours That Shook the World: Observations on Intolerance is an interview with Kevin Brownlow which includes occasional clips and stills from the film. He has a ton of fascinating anecdotes about the film and its participants, including a really funny story involving David Shepard, another vaunted name in silent film, and Intolerance's editor, James Smith.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-16
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About "The White Bus"
Overview: Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Notfilm
Overview: NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, and other rare archival elements.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-27
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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Overview: The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-07
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Birth of the Tramp
Overview: A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and the development of his enormously popular character, the Little Tramp, also called Charlot.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-29
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The Race to Save 100 Years
Overview: As the documentary points out, 85 percent of all silent pictures are gone forever because of neglect, abuse, and improper storage of original prints. This film stresses the importance of saving these and more recent films as cultural documents that have become part of our shared history. It also takes the viewer through the painstaking process of film restoration, and highlights some of the organizations and individuals who are spear-heading this movement.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers
Overview: Documentary following the history of America's first cinematographers.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-06
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It Happened Here Again
Overview: The making of Winstanley (1975)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-19
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Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
Overview: Blonde, beautiful and talented, Marion Davies was the first and funniest screwball comedienne. As star of two of the best comedies ever made, Show People and The Patsy, she combined zany slapstick and exuberant mimicry. Glamorous, witty and kind, both on screen and off, Davies was also famous for her 35-year-long love affair with William Randolph Hearst.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-14
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Louise Brooks
Overview: 55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-17
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Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Overview: Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-10
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Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite
Overview: BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Censored!
Overview: A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the teens and early 1920s in America.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-31
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