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Archive for March 19th, 2012

Comperes and Cult Cinema: Moviedrome Remembered

March 19th, 2012
In examining the contribution of Channel 4 (and, by extension, television as a whole) to British film culture, this project has a broad remit, which includes the institutional processes of film buying, programming and scheduling. Before the era of file sharing and Lovefilm, those people for whom the local Odeon had little to offer constantly [...]

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The University of Portsmouth's Channel 4 project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and run in partnership with the British Universities Film and Video Council.
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There is still a suspicion that the co-funding, the admirable open-heartedness about cinema exhibition, and perhaps the budgets, tend to produce an animal that is somewhere between the traditional television “play” and a “real” feature film, but the successes are already frequent enough to justify Film on Four… — Peter Fiddick, “Channel Four: Champion of Alternative Television”, Campaign, 1st November 1985.