Movies by Michael Harvey
Don't Look in the Basement
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
A Fistful of Dynamite
Based on the Lucky Luke comic books; Lucky Luke (Terence Hill) arrives into a tiny western town, Purgatory, and is asked to escort 12 mail order brides from another town, where some bandits get on their trail.
Edwardian Insects on Film
In 1908, amateur naturalist and pioneering filmmaker Percy Smith stunned early cinema goers with his footage of the juggling fly. Hailed as the father of Natural History film, Smith was a hugely influential visual pioneer, inventing many techniques that are still used today. Being both a genius and an eccentric, we follow his life from his earliest films, to the collapse of his house from his mould experiment to his ultimate suicide. We also meet Natural History icon Sir David Attenborough, who was so amazed by Smith’s films in the 1930s tha...
The Race for Colour
Antonia Quirke looks at the history of the colour film industry to find out who produced the first moving colour images.