Director of National Fairground Archive Confirmed
Dr Vanessa Toulim, Director of the National Fairground Archive (University of Sheffield) is CONFIRMED as a panel speaker at The Smoking Cabinet.
Dr Toulim is an expert on recently discovered early British filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon, having curated both the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection UK Tour and BFI Video’s DVD release of their work: Electric Edwardians. Her latest project – Admission All Classes – is pairing the Whoopee Agency with a series of film screenings celebrating entertainment for the masses (1850-1950) taking place in the north west through out 2007-2008.
