The Moving Picture Boy Gallery: From the John Holmstrom Collection

John Holmstrom the literary editor of the Royal Shakespeare Company and a governor of the British Film Institute spent decades travelling the world to research and write the universally acclaimed book The Moving Picture Boy Encyclopaedia. In doing so he assembled a photographic archive that is of its kind without equal in Great Britain. Film historian Paul Sutton showcases hundreds of photographs and posters from the collection around which he writes a history of this rare part of cinema. Many of the photographs have never before been published. In addition to the stills and posters the book includes a delightful 67-page scrapbook of Holmstroms newspaper and magazine cuttings from around the world; and a selection of letters to Holmstrom from former boy actors in Britain Italy France Germany America India and Hungary.