A reminder of and update on Bournemouth University's Denis Mitchell retrospective for the interest of list-members:
Gillian Reynolds (veteran broadcaster and radio critic) and Paul Watson (award winning documentary film-maker) have recently confirmed they will attend and participate in this one-day event.
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/newsandevents/Events/2009/janfebmar/ne005_mitchell-tribute.html
On 25th March (10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.), the Centre for Broadcasting History Research at Bournemouth University will host a tribute to the critically acclaimed British documentary filmmaker Denis Mitchell, at Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts. This retrospective on Mitchell's work will mark the exact 50th anniversary of the original transmission of the classic TV documentary 'Morning in the Streets' [http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/working/0189.shtml?all=1&id=0189]
As well as an archival screening of this film, an impression of everyday life and opinion in the back streets of a northern city in the morning hours, there will be rare screenings of Michael Darlow's television profile 'Denis Mitchell: Television's Master Filmmaker' and 'A Wedding on A Saturday', the intimate documentary Mitchell and Norman Swallow filmed in 1964 for Granada TV entirely on videotape (then in its infancy), and entirely on location, in a mining community.
The retrospective will feature talks on Mitchell's career in BBC radio as well as television, focusing in particular on his use of the portable tape recorder and lightweight camera to create a kind of 'popular ethnography' from documentary evidence of real lives, his innovative and impressionistic use of 'wild track' sound in both radio and TV, and his more journalistic work for 'World in Action'.
Keynote talks will include:
Veteran TV critic Philip Purser on Mitchell's place in TV history
Filmmaker and author Michael Darlow on working with Mitchell at Granada
Professor John Corner on the social and aesthetic siginificance of Mitchell's 'documentary voices'
Date: Wednesday 25 March 2009
Venue: Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts
Further information and bookings: For tickets (£10, £8 concessions) please contact Lighthouse on 0844 406 8666
For any other information, please contact
Ieuan Franklin.
PhD Research Student,
Centre for Broadcasting History Research,
Bournemouth University
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