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Special Collections: Business Studies

undefinedThe Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is both a public museum and an academic research centre, housing one of Britain's largest public collections of books, prints, artefacts and ephemera relating to the long history of screen practice. There are over 80,000 items in the collection. Holdings include many examples of nineteenth-century panoramas, dioramas, magic lanterns, stereoscopes, peepshows, optical illusions, and early cinema handbills. Artefacts are complemented by printed works relating to nineteenth-century science, technology, domestic leisure and popular entertainment. is home to one of the largest collections of material on the moving image in Britain.

Archives at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum include:

  • Don Boyd [BDC 2]Don Boyd (1948-), film director, producer and writer: personal and business papers, mainly consisting of production documents relating to films written, produced or directed by Boyd 1968-2000, as well as film companies founded or co-founded by him. Also drafts, script notes, correspondence, publicity materials; 1968-2000.
  • Bob (Robert) Dunbar [BDC 3] Bob Dunbar (1914-2000), film producer, principal of the London (International) Film School: personal and business papers relating to his films; also film scripts, production notes, papers from the London Film School, personal correspondence, press-cuttings, literary papers and interview transcripts, 20th c.
  • James Mackay [BDC 5] James Mackay (1954-), film producer: personal and business papers relating to his activities as a producer, in particular the films of Derek Jarman. Includes diaries, correspondence, production papers, financial papers, film scripts, screenplays, posters and press-cuttings, 20th c.
  • Gavrik Losey [BDC 6] Gavrik Losey (1938-), film producer: business papers and production materials relating to his films as a producer, including Little Malcolm (1974), Agatha (1979) and Babylon (1980). Also papers from his work in production for Woodfall Films and for David Puttnam’s company, Goodtimes. Includes film scripts and screenplays for made and unmade films, assorted photographs and negatives, financial papers and film budgets.

Books

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum holds many books relating to the film business. You can perform a keyword search via the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum website.

Examples of books in the collections include:

  • The movie game: the film business in Britain, Europe and America (1997) by Michael Pye [20107]
  • The Celluloid Empire: A History of the American Motion Picture Industry (1978) by Robert Stanley [31462]
  • The Disney touch: how a daring management team revived an entertainment empire (1991) by Ron Grover [11803]

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