Description | Dickinson taught his cinema course in two phases. The first phase being, Phase One: The Silent Film, the second being, Phase Two: The Early Sound Film. This series contains programme notes relating to Phase Two, films covering the period from the Depression in 1929 to circa 1960.
[This information has been taken from Thorold DIckinson's book, 'A Discovery of Cinema', Oxford Universy Press, London, 1971. In this book Dickinson also speaks of 'Phase Three: The Modern Sound Film', which covers the late 1950s onwards.] |