Bill Douglas Cinema Museum in Exeter, England
November 2013 visit to the Bill Douglas Museum at the University of Exeter. Includes a quick tour of the city of Exeter. Focuses on the collection that includes Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance artifacts. Also, the music, called Piano Wellness (listed as a Royalty Free Music Movies and Videos Backgrounds) was purchased from AMAZON. Dated as available at this link since July 23, 2012:
More about it at ednapurviance.org. -
Volunteering at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
A film by Mini Warren about student volunteers at The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter. The film talks to volunteers past and present about their work at the museum and how it helped them to forge careers in the Heritage and Culture industries.
PUNY GODS! Vs The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
On Sunday the 1st of June PUNY GODS! will take over the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter and turn into a Cinema featuring films by Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy award winning filmmakers and a series of talks about The Changing Face of Cinema.
The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is home to one of the largest collections of material relating to the moving image in Britain. The museum chronicles the development of optical entertainment from shadowpuppets and 17th century manuscripts to the most recent Hollywood blockbusters, including artefacts such as Magic Lanterns, rare books, prints, and an extensive variety of publicity materials. The diversity of this collection provides an insight into the changing dynamics of the moving image and the history of our relationship with it. Dr. Phil Wickham, the Cinema Musuem curator says it will be the first time that films made by local filmmakers will be played inside The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum.
PUNY GODS is a more social brand of cinema, popping up in unusual locations and playing an eclectic mix of films. They have taken over city centre shops and put on open air screenings as part of Open Studios Exeter, Unexpected Exeter 2013 and PUMA and Love Film's Film4Peace. Previous filmmaker's have included MOMA artist Ben Borley's Erasure, BBC New Filmmaker award winner Rob Brown's Silent Things and the crowdfunding record breaking Realm Pictures' The Underwater Realm.
PUNY GODS! is curated by David Salas, Filmmaker in Residence at the Exeter Phoenix. David says The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is the perfect venue to showcase new talent and put the innovation of today's filmmakers into context. Films that have been confirmed for this event include Royal Television Society Award Winner Richard Gosling's Tiger is Gun and Meat Bingo's Lot 13, which counts TV comedian Frankie Boyle amongst it's fans. RTS Award winner Richard Gosling says Puny Gods is a fantastic way to showcase filmmakers, engaging audiences with the immediacy that makes short films so relevant.
PUNY GODS! Vs The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is on Sunday the 1st of June from 12-5pm, drop in, drop out. Tickets are available from the Exeter Phoenix.
There is still spaces left for filmmakers to have their films screened and speakers who would like to talk about The Changing Face of Cinema. Spaces are running out fast.
Email David Salas at punygodscinema@gmail.com to find out more.
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PUNY GODS! Vs The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is supported by Exeter Arts Council, The University of Exeter Arts and Culture, Colourburn and The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum.
Music is Young by Air Review. airreview.net
PUNY GODS! Will feature the work of:
Richard Gosling
Meat Bingo
David Salas
Marc Zimmerman
Rune Madsen
Takashi Hirukawa
Glauco Canalis
Jed Hart
Ben Borley
Stuart Fitzsimmons
Ross Gill
Neo Kurosawa
Christopher Childs
Justin Carter
Gillian McIver
Carl Shanahan
GRICE
Sheila Hayman
Molly Brown
Cyrus Trafford
Jamie Stone
Kristina Yee
Clifford Roddy
Liam O'Hara
Kermode Uncut: Movie Museum
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The Bill Douglas Centre Experience
The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture is both a public museum and an academic research centre. This short film follows two Exeter students as they visit the Bill Douglas Centre for the first time and discover what an incredible resource it can be.
Exeter RAMM Museum Opening
News story featuring Exeter's RAMM Museum
Royal Albert Memorial Museum (Exeter) Corporate/Promotional film
The Townly Cooke Collection
A short film exploring The Townly Cooke Collection, recently acquired by the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. Townly Cooke (1949-2016) was an artist and photographer whose collection was predominantly made up of silent film stills and ephemera from the 1910s and 1920s. The collection was gifted to the museum in his will. The Townly Cooke exhibition, showcasing some highlights from the collection, is on display until September 2019.
Speaker: Holly Johnson
Filmmaker: Elliana Hamer
(Music: bensound.com)
The wonderful faces of Exeter Museum
During a day out to the wonderful Exeter Museum, UK, which my 2 young children Izzy & Zahra, really enjoyed, I was very taken by all the masks and faces from all cultures and eras. While I didn't have full access to take really professional photos I think I got mostly good shots considering it was nearly all through glass.
The exhibitions were centred on several world cultures : Egyptian, Pacific, Asian and South & Central American.
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) is a real gem of British Museums. It's free to get in and the staff are very friendly. The displays take visitors on a voyage of discovery from pre-history to the present day and from Exeter all around the world. Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum recently reopened to the public after a multi-million pound refurbishment with the galleries, facilities and services expected of a truly modern museum. As a result the Museum is proud to have been awarded the national title of Museum of the Year (Art Fund Prize 2012).
To visit the museums website:
The music, a track called 'Killing me' is from a relatively local Cornwall / Devon based band called Littermouth.
For more info on Littermouth visit
they have their own videos on their you tube channel
Places to see in ( Exeter - UK )
Places to see in ( Exeter - UK )
Exeter is an ancient city on the River Exe in southwest England. Dating back to the Roman era, the Exeter City Walls surround its centre and Gothic Exeter Cathedral. Exeter Castle, a Norman landmark, overlooks leafy Northernhay and Rougemont Gardens. To their west, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) displays fine art and costumes. The vaulted, medieval Underground Passages snake beneath the city.
Exeter lies within the county of Devon, of which it is the county town as well as the home of Devon County Council. Currently, the administrative area has the status of a non-metropolitan district and is therefore under the administration of the County Council (there was a plan to grant the city unitary authority status, although this was scrapped under the 2010 coalition government). The city is on the River Exe about 37 miles (60 km) northeast of Plymouth and 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Bristol.
Exeter was the most south-westerly Roman fortified settlement in Britain, although there is evidence a Cornish tribe existed in Exeter before the Roman invasion. Exeter became a religious centre during the Middle Ages and into the Tudor times: Exeter Cathedral, founded in the mid 11th century, became Anglican during the 16th-century English Reformation. During the late 19th century, Exeter became an affluent centre for the wool trade, although by the First World War the city was in decline. After the Second World War, much of the city centre was rebuilt and is now considered to be a centre for modern business and tourism in Devon and Cornwall.
The M5 motorway to Bristol and Exeter starts at Birmingham, and connects at Bristol with the M4 to London and South Wales. Exeter's main operator of local buses is Stagecoach South West, which operates most of the services in the city. Dartline is a minor operator in the City. Exeter is considered to be a rail hub within the south-west and is linked to most branch lines in Devon, including to Paignton, Exmouth, Barnstaple and Okehampton (by a special service). Exeter International Airport lies east of the city, and the local airline, previously called Jersey European and British European but now known as Flybe . The Exeter Canal also known as the Exeter Ship Canal was first completed in about 1566.
Alot to see in ( Exeter - UK ) such as :
Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Crealy Great Adventure Parks
Northernhay Gardens
Exeter Cathedral
Rougemont Castle
Rougemont Gardens
Jurassic Coast
Exeter Racecourse
Butts Ferry
Killerton
Exeters Underground Passages
Devon Wildlife Trust
National Trust - Killerton
Go Ape Haldon Forest Park
St Catherines Almshouses
Devon Archaeological Society
Woodbury Castle
Topsham Museum
Ashclyst Forest
Parliament Street, Exeter
National Trust: Clyston Mill
Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
St Martin's Church, Exeter
Belmont Park, Exeter
Shobrooke Park
Bury Meadow Park
Mincinglake Valley Park
Ludwell Valley Park
Riverside Valley Park
Pinces Gardens
Downes, Crediton
( Exeter - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Exeter . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Exeter - UK
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Object Stories: Female Audiences and Inter-War Cinema
In this film in Object Stories Dr Lisa Stead from the University of Exeter discusses women’s writing on cinema in the inter-war years, using artefacts such as books, magazines and postcards from The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum.
Read more about Lisa Stead's research here:
England 2012
March break of 2012, my mother and I took a trip to Exeter, England to visit my sister who participated in a university exchange program. We also got the pleasure of visiting Oxford, the Moores and Stonehenge.
I made this slideshow for my favourite mother, to commemorate our awesome trip, as a gift on mothers day. Thanks for being the wonderful person you are mom, you couldn't be better if you tried.
Love you forever,
Bean
'My Favourite Things' Tour of Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum
My Favourite Things was made by
Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education
In partnership with
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon, UK (RAMM)
to encourage Deaf children and young people to
come and explore the galleries and collections
Charles Dickens and the Magic Lantern
The earliest films might not have been made until the mid 1890s but that didn't stop people in Victorian Britain enjoying all sorts of visual spectacles and wonders, created using lights, smoke, mirrors - and plenty of imagination. In this short film, 'Professor' Mervyn Heard performs a magic lantern show, while Dr John Plunkett (Exeter University) and Phil Wickham (curator of the Bill Douglas Centre) explore why the stories of Charles Dickens were adapted so often in the pre-cinema age.
With special thanks to the Bill Douglas Centre and Charles Dickens Museum.
For more on the BFI's Dickens on Screen project go to
All titles on the BFI Films channel are preserved in the vast collections of the BFI National Archive. To find out more about the Archive visit
week in the life of exeter phoenix auditorium
A timelapse film showing a week in the life of the auditorium at Exeter Phoenix. With a combination of live music and cinema, it shows the versatility of this city centre arts venue.
Exeter Cathedral_tourist destination_in england.
Exeter Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter at Exeter, is an Anglican cathedral, and the seat of the Bishop of Exeter, in the city of Exeter, Devon, in South West England.
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exeter cathedral organ
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exeter cathedral library
exeter cathedral craft fair 2014
exeter cathedral school
exeter cathedral shop
exeter cathedral jobs
Object Stories: Hollywood Soundscapes Pt 1
In this film in Object Stories, Dr Helen Hanson from the University of Exeter uses fan magazines, film publicity and technical manuals from the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum to uncover an unheard history of how Hollywood’s sound technicians were key to the adoption of sound filmmaking, and crafted film soundscapes alive with ‘story values'.
Read more about Helen Hanson's research here:
The Making of 'Anton Walbrook - Star and Enigma'
The Bill Douglas Centre, an Exeter-based film museum and research archive, have created a new exhibition on the actor, Anton Walbrook. This mini-documentary observes the process and thoughts behind putting it together.
Exhibition curator: James Downs
Exhibition artist: Matt McLaren
Bill Douglas Centre curator: Phil Wickham
Filmed, directed and edited by Olivia Luder
Additional camera work: Chris Grosvenor
Aimi Macdonald @ The Cinema Museum May 7th
Tickets cinemamuseum.org