The Moving Picture Girl 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 two scholarly books about children in films. The first book The Moving Picture Boy Encyclopaedia was published to unanimous acclaim but the companion volume The Moving Picture Girl Encyclopaedia was not completed in Holmstroms lifetime. Film historian Paul Sutton opens the archives to showcase hundreds of photographs and posters from Holmstroms unfinished work. Many of the images have never before been published. In addition to the stills and poster galleries the book includes a delightful 55-page scrapbook of newspaper and magazine cuttings from around the world and a selection of Holmstroms letters to and from filmmakers and film historians in Romania Bulgaria Germany Korea Denmark Albania The United States.