Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
The museum has two galleries of exhibits which are open to the public. There is a reading room for researchers to access and consult materials from the collection by appointment.
The museum is named after the filmmaker Bill Douglas. The collection that Douglas put together with his friend Peter Jewell founded the museum; many other donors have added to the holdings since. The museum now holds over 80,000 artefacts from the seventeenth century to the present day. There is a large collection of material on optical media prior to the invention of cinema including holdings on magic lanterns, shadow puppets, panoramas and dioramas, optical illusions and peep shows. There are also significant holdings on cinema pioneers, early and silent cinema, film stars, such as Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe, and film publicity material and merchandising up to the present day.
There are also a number of filmmakers' production archives, including Bill Douglas's working papers, the Townley Cooke collection, and the archives of producer/director Don Boyd, and producers Gavrik Losey and James Mackay.
References
- ^ Vowles, Charlotte (10 July 2021). "Exeter's hidden gem is a film fan's dreamland". DevonLive. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
- ^ "Home". www.bdcmuseum.org.uk. The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
- ^ "Unique collection of silent movie artefacts donated to cinema museum". independent. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
External links
- Bill Douglas Cinema Museum - official site
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