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I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself!
Kevin Brownlow / Historian
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Napoleon is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.
Kevin Brownlow / Historian
Cinema
Pure
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'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.
Kevin Brownlow / Historian
Cinema
Pure
Designed
Napoleon
Sharing
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To me, film is a religion. I don't expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication.
Kevin Brownlow / Historian
Total
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My first restoration was on Napoleon, trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.
Kevin Brownlow / Historian
Firsts
Restoration
Trying
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My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.
Kevin Brownlow / Historian
Restoration
Version
French
Napoleon
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Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.
Kevin Brownlow / Historian
Brilliant
Directors
Painting
Silent
Era
Forced
Sculptor
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Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.
Kevin Brownlow / Historian
Cinema
Disappointed
Patriotic
Paradoxically
Reaction
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Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.
Kevin Brownlow / Historian
Art
Inspirational
Attitude
Entertaining
Silent
Art Form
Attitudes
Pictures
Wonderfully
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Friends told me not to bother with the silents - they're jerky, poorly photographed and ludicrously badly acted. But I was immediately struck by the freshness and vitality of these films.
Kevin Brownlow / Historian
Bother
Freshness
Vitality
Acted
Badly
Immediately
Photographed
Poorly
Struck
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The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after the talkies, almost nobody was doing the same for the silents. Now there are plenty of very good historians and restorers.
Kevin Brownlow / Historian
Plenty
Historians
So Much Energy
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It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.'
Kevin Brownlow / Historian
Borrowed
Film
French Revolution
Library
Revolution
Silent
Anything Else
Asked
French
Jean
Napoleon
Rang
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I was sent to boarding school - a grim place. The only good thing the headmaster did for us was every Sunday evening in the winter he would show us films in the chapel. He couldn't afford a sound projector, so we saw silent films, which you could then still rent from photographic shops.
Kevin Brownlow / Historian
Chapel
Evening
Grim
Shops
Silent
Sunday
Winter
Afford
Boarding
Boarding School
Every Sunday
Good Thing
Photographic
Rent
Sent
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I realised that you could easily turn any room into a cinema with a projector, so I went on and on at my parents for one. They eventually got me a projector for Christmas when I was ten, and I realised I'd made a ridiculous mistake - I'd forgotten to say 'movie' projector; I got a still one.
Kevin Brownlow / Historian
Christmas
Cinema
Forgotten
Mistake
Realised
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I decided to restore 'Napoleon' after a widescreen festival at the Odeon Leicester Square in 1968. It was run by Richard Arnell and George Dunning, who animated and directed 'Yellow Submarine,' and they'd got their hands on the last scene, the triptychs. They just showed that part, without music and with the projectors misaligned.
Kevin Brownlow / Historian
Animated
Yellow
Directed
Festival
George
Napoleon
Restore
Square
Submarine
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