British Film Institute

Chapter 1 Overview - 'Birdie Sings, Music Sings' The vast majority of us already know much about film music, even if we never take any notice of it. We can recognise musical clichés, the jaunty tune that appears during a happy scene, the sombre dirge that accompanies a flmereal situation....

FILMBertrand Russell says that the first philosopher was Thaies of Miletus in the sixth century BC. Thaies, who tiiought that everything is made of water, was soon followed by Heraclitus of Ephesus, whose variation on the theme was that everything is in a state of flux. Since everything is in a...