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Black and white film still of a woman at a desk with papers flying around

Zoe Beloff dusts off Mutt and Jeff for look at early moving image at Site Gallery

Current Sheffield show The Infernal Dream of Mutt and Jeff brings the world's longest running comic strip into focus with management science and Duchamp.

Original poster for the Ministry of Technology's mobile cinema

Vintage Mobile Cinema launches Screen Heritage UK programme in Brighton

Screen Heritage UK is celebrating the digitalisation of its archives with a special show in a customised Bedford van in Brighton's Jubilee Square

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Pinocchio and the Jungle Book to Hulk and Toy Story: Watch me Move at the Barbican

150 years of animation are captured in an awesome, packed new exhibition of films and moving image history.

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Disney, Pixar and Aardman star in Barbican visual treat Watch me Move: Animation Show

A major exhibition at the Barbican traces 150 years of animation and highlights the power of the moving image.

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Adam Chodzko and Kat Mansoor star in outing for Archivia films at the Lighthouse in Brighton

The Brighton gallery hosts 18 archive reels aiming to inspire new makers and explore the use of old films in the digital age.

A photo of a Victorian child

Capturing Colour: Film, Invention and Wonder captivates at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery

The incredible story of how the world of colour we take for granted came to exist forms a cinematic treat in Brighton.

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Steven Gartside brings multi-dimensional archive and contemporary film installation to the MOSI

Steven Gartside's multi screen film installation explores the function of the city at the Museum of Science and Industry.

Curator's Choice: Lucy Shanahan of the Wellcome Collection chooses an Eadweard Muybridge collotype

Lucy Shanahan, curator at the Wellcome Collection, describes one of 781 collotypes which form Eadweard Muybridge's magnum opus, Animal Locomotion, 1887.

New Online Gateway To UK's Screen Heritage Collections

The first online guide to the UK's on-screen heritage, The Researcher's Guide to Screen Heritage, has been launched this week at the British Library's Foyle Centre,

Royal Academy Sets Itself On A Collision Course With William S Burroughs

Culture24 previews the second part of the Royal Academy of Arts' Contemporary season, which begins this week with an apocalyptic and eclectic programme.

100 Years Of Wildlife Films Goes Online With WildFilmHistory Site

The launch of WildFilmHistory - an online museum of wildlife films, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund - is imminent after two years' collecting and conserving.

National Archives Film Project Wins BETT 2008 Education Award

The National Archives has won an award at the annual BETT showcase for educational ICT, with a project allowing schools to access and use its film archives.

Cumbria's Beacon Museum And Gallery Reopens In Whitehaven

The Beacon in Whitehaven is celebrating the completion of a £2.2m redevelopment, giving it a new early history section and the Copeland Tango!

Newarke Houses Museum Re-Opens With New Leicester Regiment Gallery

Newarke Houses Museum incorporating the Museum of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment re-opened on Saturday June 23 2007 after a £1.5 million refurbishment.

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News In Brief - Week Ending June 24 2007

Museums, galleries and heritage news in brief from the 24 Hour Museum for the week ending June 24 2007.

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