The event takes place on Friday 10 July from 6-8pm.

Colour films from the first 50 years of cinema will be shown at Arnolfini this week at a unique event organised by researchers at the University of Bristol to coincide with a major conference on the history, theory and aesthetics of the moving image in colour.

‘All the Hues of Nature: Colour Film and Restoration’ is designed to showcase early colour films restored by the British Film Institute National Archive and the Filmmuseum, nl.   

Tickets are available from the Arnolfini Box Office  Tel: 0117 917 2300/01 £6.00 (full price) £4.50 (concession)

Tickets for the screening include access to a panel discussion on colour and film restoration, chaired by Professor Tom Gunning (University of Chicago), which will take place at Arnolfini on Saturday 11 July from 5.30-6.30pm.  Panel participants include Sonia Genaitay (British Film Institute), Giovanna Fossati (Filmmuseum, nl.), Daniela Currò (Haghe Film Conservation B.V., Netherlands) and Josh Yumibe (Oakland University).

The screening and discussion panel are sponsored by Screen Journal as one of its 50th Anniversary events and hosted by the Colour and the Moving Image conference, University of Bristol.

For more information please see http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2009/6451.html