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British & Colonial Kinematograph Company British & Colonial Kinematograph Company i(6612440 works by) (Organisation) assertion (a.k.a. B & C; British and Colonial Films)
Born: Established: 1908 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 1924
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Founded by Albert Henry Bloomfield and John Benjamin McDowell, the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company operated first out of central London and then from East Finchley. Beginning with both documentaries and feature films, it soon moved to longer films, featuing some location shooting. In 1913, it made what is sometimes credited as the first British 'epic' film, The Battle of Waterloo.

The same year, it moved to Walthamstow, and in 1915 took over British filming on the Western Front. At the same time, it was experimenting with new film technologies such as Voxograph, in which actors' voices were dubbed off-stage at the same time as the on-stage actors were filmed.

Their 1923 version of The Taming of the Shrew is the earliest surviving British film, and the company would up the following year.

IMDB credits them with producing 342 films between 1908 and 1924.

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