The British Silent Film Festival

 

This year's Rachael Low lecture will be given by Tim Boon, Chief Curator of the Science Museum in London. Tim Boon is the author of the recently published and highly acclaimed Films of Fact: A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television. He is also working with the BFI on a forthcoming DVD of the pioneering science and nature series Secrets of Nature and he’ll be talking about the secrets of Percy Smith’s life making nature films in suburban London

 

Rachael Low is a key figure in the history of the study of early and silent British cinema. Her pioneering studies published as The History of the British Film 1895-1929 (BFI) are an unrivalled source for students on the subject and they remain the unchallenged standard work in this field. Each year the Festival pays tribute to her work by inviting a distinguished cultural commentator to give an illustrated lecture on a particular aspect of silent cinema.