Kevin Brownlow (born 2 June 1938) is a British film historian, television documentary-maker, filmmaker, author, and film editor. Brownlow is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era. Brownlow became interested in silent film at the age of eleven. This interest grew into a career spent documenting and restoring film. He has rescued many silent films and their history. His initiative in interviewing many largely forgotten, elderly film pioneers in the 1960s and 1970s preserved a legacy of early mass-entertainment cinema. Brownlow received an Academy Honorary Award at the 2nd Annual Governors Awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on 13 November 2010. This was the first occasion on which an Academy Honorary Award was given to a film preservationist.
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History, Motion pictures, History and criticism, Silent films, Biography, In motion pictures, Motion pictures, history, Napoléon (Motion picture : 1927), Actors, united states, Bibel, Biographie, Biographies, Catalogs, Cinema/Film: Book, Cinéma, Documentaires, Documentary films, Film, Film posters, Film theory & criticism, Films muets, Geschichte, Guerre, 1914-1918 (Mondiale, 1re) au cinéma, Histoire, Histoire et critiquePlaces
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