Come to Barney Broom's (60-70) lectures on the movie business
February 14, 2025
Barney Broom is at the Little Theatre in Sheringham over the next few months, hosting a series of fascinating talks on the movie business.

26 Feb 2025
Venues:
Sheringham Little Theatre
Categories:
Talk
Origins, Style & TechWilliam Frieze Green inventing a camera and the beginnings of British cinema. How the style of British films is different to America’s. British technical proficiency – the fact that apart from the Americans, the UK has won more Oscars than all other countries in the world combined.Britain at WarCinema emerging in WW1 – British film makers at the front. How The Battle of the Somme screened to 20 million people and was a major commercial success. WW2 – In Which We Serve (Noel Coward) + Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger’s (A Matter of Life & Death). How films played a major propaganda role.Buy tickets to all 3 talks for £20!
Lectures on the Movie Business - Origins, Style and Tech & Britain at War
Lectures on the Movie Business - North London Charioteers & Back to the Future
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Lectures on the Movie Business - BAFTA and David Lean & Kitchen Sink and Carry On
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Dates
26 Mar 2025
Venues:
Sheringham Little Theatre
Categories:
Talk
BAFTA & David LeanLean’s editing origins and early B/W films. His involvement with Carol Read and others founding the British Film Academy which ultimately led to BAFTA. Lean’s great motion pictures – Bridge On the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia etc.Kitchen Sink & Carry OnThe 60s: Not being able to compete with Hollywood blockbusters financially, the emergence of low budget B/W gritty films – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tom Courtney)Saturday NightSunday Morning – Albert Finney/Rachel Roberts. At the same time the Carry On films were being produced – all 31 of them!Buy tickets to all 3 talks for £20!
Lectures on the Movie Business - BAFTA and David Lean & Kitchen Sink and Carry On
30 Apr 2025
Venues:
Sheringham Little Theatre
Categories:
Talk
North London Charioteers David Putnam, Alan Parker and resurgence of British film talent (Hugh Hudson, Ridley Scott etc). The impact commercials had on their films and the success of British directors in today’s international film world.Back to the FutureTrawls developments from early cinema to revolutions along the way. The advent of sound, colour film, video and digital recording to artificial intelligence. In tomorrow’s world will cameras be necessary let alone actors. How will people view anything in the future? Fake news – what is real to our eye?The great illusion that is cinema. Buy tickets to all 3 talks for £20!
Lectures on the Movie Business - North London Charioteers & Back to the Future

