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Bioscope Days

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

A five-part series: programme 2
Tonight, John Huntley looks at the films of the Williamson Kinematograph Company of Brighton and Hove, whose productions of Attack on a China Mission, A Big Swallow and Fire are acknowledged as early cinema classics.
James Williamson 's family business produced hundreds of farcical comedies, trick films and action dramas which were exported all over the world, and established Williamson as a major film producer in the Bioscope Days.
Film editor ALAN KNIGHT
Producer PATRICK TAGGART

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John Huntley
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James Williamson
Producer:
Patrick Taggart
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