Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

From Nosferatu to The General – why the 1920s is my favourite film decade


Chaplin and Keaton made millions laugh, but silent cinema’s greatest classics were the fruit of wild European fancy … and then Hollywood invented the talkies

Explore...

Captain Fantastic editing

Movie Reviews – MRQE – the Movie Review Query Engine

Under the Skin: Analysis of Film Form, Narrative and Ideology

Under the Skin - The Alien Gaze

Editing Captain Fantastic

Screenplay examples with visuals from the film

Under the Skin - Explained

WOMEN MAKE MOVIES | Kim Longinotto

Film editing: Everything you need to know

House of Flying Daggers - flashcards

New...

Design and Technology: Literacy

Artificial intelligence and assessments

My Examinations

Summer 2024 Results

Hartismere Family of Schools Art Exhibition - Somerleyton Hall

Year 5 Open afternoons

National Apprenticeship Week 2024

Design and Technology

Discover...

ZEN The Guardian Film Studies GCE Silent Film My Exams Editing Narrative Test Hartismere Polley Key Stage 4 Stories We Tell NAW2024 BFI International Association YouTube Films Screenplay Careers and Training Captain Fantastic

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...