An Oscar for UKAPress Author Kevin Brownlow.

Huge congratulations go to renowned UKA Press author and film documentarian Kevin Brownlow (The Search for Charlie Chaplin, Winstanley, Warts and All and How It Happened Here) who, together with Francis Ford Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard and actor Eli Wallach, will receive a Motion Picture Academy Award Honorary Oscar for his contribution and dedication to the preservation and restoration of silent film in Hollywood on 13th November 2010. The ACADEMY of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Since starting his own film collection at the age of eleven, Kevin Brownlow has worked ...
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Voices from the Web Anthology 2017

These stories and poems have been selected by members of the writer’s website, UKAuthors, and on the basis of votes cast for each piece. Whether you prefer humour to chuckle at, drama to weep over, poetry that bounces along or ...
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Keith Moon Stole My Lipstick

by Judith Wills "A fascinating and intriguing journey through the 1970’s pop scene"“I honestly couldn’t put it down” “Beautifully captures those hip/happening times” “An elegy to childhood dreams and lost innocence”   Were you ever a teenager trying to ...
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Voices from the Web Anthology 2016

These stories and poems have been selected by members of the writer’s website, UKAuthors, and on the basis of votes cast for each piece. Whether you prefer humour to chuckle at, drama to weep over, poetry that bounces along or ...
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The Sighs of a Mouse

by Paul Chappell Paul struggled for many years with depression. Despite his condition he retained his sense of satirical humour and wrote one brilliantly witty story after another. His sharp observational skills and comprehension of human nature left one with ...
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The Screen of Change

by Peter Hopkinson The Screen of Change is a memoir and historical study from film-maker Peter Hopkinson. The BUFVC has published chapter two, ‘Film and Politics’, with the generous permission of the author. Below is his resumé of the complete ...
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The Search For Chalie Chaplin

by Kevin Brownlow In the world of film collecting, the claim “find of the century” may sound an unpardonable exaggeration. But what discovery can equal it? Collectors had hailed the discovery of the occasional lost Keystone comedy in which Chaplin played, but nobody ...
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How It Happened Here

by Kevin Brownlow How It Happened Here tells the story of the making of a film and the subsequent reception that the film received and the controversy and alarm that it stirred up when it was first released. The film-makers ...
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