Lectures on the Movie Business – The Flickers & The Silently Roaring Twenties

Barney Broom works in the film industry. As a writer/director he has won awards for this work, having made commercials, documentaries for both TV and cinema. He will be giving talks about the history of Hollywood. In 2002/03 Barney was involved in the Borobudur Ship Expedition sailing a replica vessel across the Indian Ocean in the wake of 8th century Indonesian migration to Africa. The documentary produced entitled Braving the Cape was sold to Discovery. As well as presenting his series of talks on the British Film Industry and the history of Hollywood, work is currently underway adapting LUST FOR POWER for a proposed television drama series.

Barney is a member of BAFTA and the Director's Guild of Great Britain. As an author, Barney has written five novels (https://amzn.to/3ySPShi) 

1. The Flickers – Early films 

Origins of Hollywood to end WW1 (Douglas Fairbanks/Mary Pickford/Charlie Chaplin).

2. The Silently Roaring Twenties

The would-be movie moguls building their studios making silent films. Garbo/John Gilbert stars – Irving Thalberg and the creation of MGM