BAFTSS New Connections Funding Scheme supports early career researchers forge connections with new institutions through a programme of research presentations. Deadline for the 2027 programme is 15th December 2026. Plan ahead! More information for ECRs and hosts: www.baftss.org/new-connecti...

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Thanks to everyone who joined the BAFTSS Colour & Film SIG seminar with Colour Collective UK yesterday, where I spoke about my research on the politics of color in Life Magazine photojournalist Eliot Elisofon’s work on 1950s Technicolor films. @baftss.bsky.social @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social

A review that I wrote of Alice Lovejoy’s book ‘Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War’ has been published in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Read the review: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CV3VZ... if you get the chance to, read the book

Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War

Published in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Colour, Film & the Star Image seminar (online) 2pm-4:15pm (UK) Thurs 24th Sept 2026. Speakers: Sarah Street, Jade Evans, Liz Watkins, Nicolò Salmaso & Casci Ritchie. Programme & Abstracts: colourandfilm.com/cfps/ Register (free) forms.cloud.microsoft/r/H49pHhiHZK @baftss all welcome!

Watch a recording of the recent Bombay Film Colour seminar presentations by Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (UCL) and Ranjani Mazumdar (Jawaharlal Nehru University) here: youtu.be/LWAGqny7Uls The seminar was hosted by the BAFTSS Colour & Film SIG. @baftss.bsky.social @bombayfilmcolour.bsky.social

Bombay Film Colour Seminar 12noon – 1:15pm (UK, online) Tuesday 7th July 2026 Registration: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/Bwrgk2939K Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (UCL)& Ranjani Mazumdar (Jawaharlal Nehru University) discuss the outcomes of their AHRC Bombay Film Color project @bombayfilmcolour.bsky.social

Thanks to Charlotte Ribeyrol, Joshua Yumibe, Barabara Flueckiger, Dominic Williams& Mathilde Renauld for speaking at the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching & Curating Colour & discussing digital media, the conservation, analysis, restoration & exhibition of Autochromes, colour, film & more.

Join us tomorrow for the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Curating Colour Seminar (Zoom) 2-5pm April 1st 2026 How do we curate and teach the history of colour materials for which the first point of access is often a digital image? Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interdisci...

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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Curating Colour. Seminar (Zoom) 2-5pm April 1st 2026 How do we curate and teach the history of colour materials for which the first point of access is often a digital image? Info & register www.colour.org.uk/interdiscipl... All welcome!

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Curating Colour. Seminar (Zoom) 2-5pm April 1st 2026 How do we curate and teach the history of colour materials for which the first point of access is often a digital image? Info & register www.colour.org.uk/interdiscipl... All welcome!

Fantastic joining the Women of Photography 24 hour Conference-a-thon for International Women’s Day today ! I joined the amazing Anne Noble (Massey), Joyce Campbell (Auckland) & Geoff Batchen (Oxford) to talk about photography, women photographers and Antarctica. Kris Belden Adam’s& Rose Teanby host!

Cycling close to sunset yesterday

Seminar (online) Professor Hidenori Watanave (University of Tokyo) on “Rebooting Memories”: creating “flow” and inheriting memories from colorized photographs’ 7-8pm (Japan) 10-11am(UK) Tues 10th March 2026. Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon... Info: colourandfilm.com/cfps/

Cyanotypes exhibition, Fotomusuem, Rotterdam. 7 Feb-7June 2026 nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/en/nu-te-zie...

Awakening in Blue – Nederlands Fotomuseum

This exhibition is an ode to the cyanotype, an age-old technique that creates deep blue hues. At a time when AI images can be created in an instant, the cyanotype is making a comeback. Sunlight, water...

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It’s been amazing to interview @flueko.bsky.social Flueckiger about her work and most recently with @scan2screen.bsky.social digitising, analysing and exhibiting colour, photography, film & their materials Read the interview on the Baftss Colour & Film blog colourandfilm.com/2026/02/18/t...

Registration open! Women of Photography 24 hour Conference-a-thon 2026. 8th March International Women’s Day. I’ll be joining the amazing Joyce Campbell, Anne Nobel & Geoff Batchen to discuss photography &Antarctica. Convened by the brilliant Rose Teanby & Kris Belden Adams. womenofphoto.com

Women of Photography

Join us to celebrate the contributions of women practitioners to the history and living present of photography.

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Rainbows in Leeds today

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#2 Sarah Street, Professor of Film and Foundation Chair of Drama, University of Bristol

Five unforgettable uses of red on film, memories of interviewing former Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the hidden history of colour technologies in cinema.

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Published today: War Faces on Screen: Photography, Film and the Politics of Representation (Bloomsbury) edited by Katy Parry and Mani King Sharpe including essays on the close up, drone vision, and the colourisation of archival film footage www.bloomsbury.com/uk/war-faces...

War Faces on Screen

How have images of the face been used to document and distort the phenomenon of war? Such is the question that drives this book, with the face forming a recurri…

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JUST ANNOUNCED Our next online talk ... 'Conflict Photography: A Manipulated Reality?' with Hilary Roberts on Tuesday 20th January 2026 (1900 GMT). events.rps.org/en/historica... Register via the link in our bio.

‘Alt text is, by necessity, often cursory – an issue that is especially pronounced in museums and galleries. How to convey colour, texture and tone in 150 words or less?’ – Emma Cieslik on how the best descriptions can help everyone see art more clearly

How to describe a work of art

Alt text in museums doesn’t benefit only low-vision users – it helps all of us think more deeply about how to understand an artwork

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There’s a petition countering proposals to close the Film Studies programme at the University of Leicester. Read more here c.org/WfcP6tX6gG

Stop the Closure of Film Studies at Uni of Leicester

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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Recording: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding (MIT 2025) book launch & seminar is online! Thanks to the amazing authors & presenters @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social @atambersweat.bsky.social Aileen Robinson & Carolyn L Kane! @mitpress.bsky.social @baftss.bsky.social youtu.be/ZmPnT676GMc

Color Protocols Book Launch and Seminar HD 1080p

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The seminar & book launch (online) for Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media (MIT, 2025) starts at 4pm – 5:30pm (UK), 12noon – 1:30pm (EST) Thursday 30th October 2025 Event details: colourandfilm.com/cfps/

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Technicolor No. V samples from the Cinematography Collection at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford. Credit: NSMM. Photographs by Barbara Flueckiger and Noemi Daugaard. China girl or …

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group@baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Join the seminar & book launch (online): Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media (MIT, 2025) 4pm – 5:30pm (UK), 12noon – 1:30pm (EST) Thursday 30th October 2025 Event details: colourandfilm.com/cfps/ Registration: forms.office.com/pages/respon.... @baftss.bsky.social

Light night in Leeds 2025

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Book Launch: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media. Thurs 30th Oct 2025. All Welcome! Presenters: Lida Zeitlin-Wu (Notre Dame), Carolyn L. Kane (Toronto Met), Amber Sweat (Amherst) & Aileen Robinson (Stanford). colourandfilm.com/cfps/

BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group@baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · last yr.

Book Launch! Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media 16:00– 17:30(UK) 12:00 – 13:30(EST) 30th Oct 2025. What is at stake when categories like color, race &ethnicity are transformed into an industry standard? Registration: colourandfilm.com/cfps/ @baftss.bsky.social

This must have been a difficult decision for those involved, but brave it is. Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out. mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members

It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

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The Film Atlas edited by James Layton and Crystal Kui is online. Amazing to have had the opportunity to contribute a piece on Tinting and Toning combinations used to colour black-and-white film stocks for this. www.filmatlas.com/entry/453

Liz Watkins@liziwat.bsky.social · last yr.

The Film Atlas was launched at the Nitrate Picture Show May 2025! An open access visual guide - with high res film fragments - from motion picture film formats, soundtracks & color processes. Edited by James Layton &Crystal Kui for FIAF & the George Eastman Museum. www.filmatlas.com/explore

The Film Atlas was launched at the Nitrate Picture Show May 2025! An open access visual guide - with high res film fragments - from motion picture film formats, soundtracks & color processes. Edited by James Layton &Crystal Kui for FIAF & the George Eastman Museum. www.filmatlas.com/explore

A recording of the book launch for Feeling Colour is online m.youtube.com/watch?v=NsGh... Author Bregt Lameris (Open Universiteit, Nl), was joined by Joshua Yumibe (MSU) & Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews). Thanks to the speakers and all who joined us @baftss.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social

Book Launch: Bregt Lameris, Feeling Colour, Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture 1950s-1960s

YouTube video by Liz Watkins

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