从1908年至1927年，是世界无声电影发展并进入全盛的时期，并涌现了一批世界电影名作和着名的电影艺术家。 在欧洲，艺术和商业发展进程较美国更快。在电影历史的最初十年中，最优秀的影片来自法国和英国。 在英国象罗伯特·威廉·席台和伯尔特·阿克利斯这样的发明家仿造并改进了爱迪生的机器。一批具有创新精神的艺术家则使用这批机器来拍摄二十世纪最初十年最富有想象力的影片。往往被人称做布赖顿学派的这些英国电影制作者，如Ｇ·阿尔伯特·史密斯、詹姆士·威廉逊、埃斯美·柯林斯、希赛尔·海普华斯和察尔斯·欧本，他们影片的特点是对活动的摄影机、特写以及剪辑的节奏进行实验。希赛尔·海普华斯的《义犬救主记》（一九０五年），这部情节剧是关于一个婴儿被吉普赛人拐走，然后被一只忠实的牧羊犬救了回来的故事。这部影片大概是电影历史头十五年中剪辑得最为流畅而连贯的影片。英国人还开始发展了作为社会文献的电影（例如《衣衫褴褛》、《贫民窟的孩子》，由柯林斯于一九０五年制作）。布赖顿学派的成员还把梅里埃的影片里电影特技和绝技进行了完善了。

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Running for seven weeks from July 2007, each week focused on a different genre, examining British film by genre. Presented by Jessica Stevenson the series featured over 200 exclusive interviews with leading actors and directors including Sir Michael Caine, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Kate Winslet.

(from夏末秋字幕组)从哥特式大教堂宏伟的雕塑杰作，到教堂唱诗班座椅下俏皮的横木，英国中世纪的雕塑作品总是那样的令人过目难忘。在那个还不存在“雕塑家”这个概念的年代，无以计数的流动工匠们完成了教堂中众多的雕塑，他们的名字却湮没在了历史的长河中。 英国雕塑史的首个黄金时代在那场声势浩荡的亨利八世教堂改革中终结，改革带来的浩劫，必将耗时数个世纪才能得以平复。

The Dickson Experimental Sound Film is a film made by William Dickson in late 1894 or early 1895. It is the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first example of a motion picture made for the Kinetophone, the proto-sound-film system developed by Dickson and Thomas Edison. (The Kinetophone—consisting of a Kinetoscope accompanied by a cylinder-playing phonograph—was not a true sound-film system as no attempt was made to synchronize image and audio throughout playback.) The film was produced at the "Black Maria," Edison's New Jersey film studio. There is no evidence that it was ever exhibited in its original format. Newly digitized and restored, it is the only surviving Kinetophone film. The movie features Dickson playing a violin into a recording cone for an off-camera wax cylinder.[1] The melody is from a barcarolle, "Song of the Cabin Boy," from Les Cloches de Corneville (literally The Bells of Corneville; presented in English-speaking countries as The Chimes of Normandy), a light opera composed by Robert Planquette in 1877.[2] In front of Dickson, two men dance to the music. In the final seconds, a fourth man briefly crosses from left to right behind the cone. The running time of the restored film is seventeen seconds; the accompanying cylinder contains approximately two minutes of sound, including twenty-three seconds of violin music, encompassing the film's soundtrack. After its restoration in 2000, the Dickson Experimental Sound Film was selected for inclusion in the United States National Film Registry.

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英国BFI制作的纪录片《电影百年》之英国电影