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Ian Christie(II)

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Scot Bill Douglas (1934-91) was a collector of cinema memorabilia and pre-cinema optical devices as well as being an award-winning filmmaker (Bill Douglas Trilogy). He put these devices into his last film, Comrades (1987), the story of Tolpuddle Martyrs.
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Ian Christie is the Professor of Film and Media History at Birbeck College, University of London. Before that he was the Professor of Film Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury. A long time expert on Soviet film and the works of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
BornFebruary 23, 1945
BornFebruary 23, 1945
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    The Last Machine (1995)
    The Last Machine
    7.3
    TV Series
    • Writer
    • 1995
    The Pleasure Is Mine
    TV Mini Series
    • Director
    • 1976
    A Trip to Tetlapayac
    • Director
    • 2023
    Before and After the Monsoon
    TV Movie
    • Director
    • 1985

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    • A Trip to Tetlapayac
      • Director
      • 2023
    • Before and After the Monsoon
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 1985
    • The Pleasure Is Mine
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 1976

    Writer



    • The Last Machine (1995)
      The Last Machine
      7.3
      TV Series
      • Writer
      • 1995
    • Visions (1982)
      Visions
      TV Series
      • script
      • 1985

    Producer



    • The Last Machine (1995)
      The Last Machine
      7.3
      TV Series
      • producer: British Film Institute
      • 1995
    • Welcome 1977
      TV Special
      • outside broadcast producer
      • 1976
    • For Auld Lang Syne
      TV Movie
      • outside broadcast producer: Mumbles
      • 1975

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    Lanterna Magicka: Bill Douglas & the Secret History of Cinema
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    Lanterna Magicka: Bill Douglas & the Secret History of Cinema

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      • Prof. Ian Christie
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      • February 23, 1945
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      • Patsy Nightingale1979 - present (4 children)
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      Gilliam on Gilliam by Terry Gilliam (edited by Ian Christie). Faber and Faber, November 1999. ISBN 0571202802

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