BFI Screenonline has just updated its homepage, continuing its coverage of the Shadows of Progress postwar documentary project, and highlighting Soap Opera, Newsreels and the films of exactly a century ago (the latter part of an ongoing series that has already tackled 1906, 1907, 1908 and 1909).

I spent much of the month compiling soap opera credits, a task about as soul-destroying as it gets – but I did get the chance to write the main entry on EastEnders. I also took the opportunity of writing up Arctic London (1929, Topical Budget 912-1), a newsreel about weather conditions rather similar to our recent ones.