Kevin Brownlow

Kevin Brownlow is a film maker, film historian, television documentary-maker, and author. He is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era. Brownlow developed an interest in silent film at the young age of eleven. This interest grew into a life-long passion for the cinema and a career spent documenting and restoring film. He is without question one of the most respected and admired historians of the early cinema and has rescued many a silent film and its history from oblivion. Seeking out and interviewing many, largely forgotten film pioneers in the 1960s and 1970s, he preserved a priceless legacy of cinema that would have otherwise been lost (Wikipedia).

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It Happened Here - by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo (1965)

The original UK trailer:

(video by BFI)

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In an interview c. 1980, silent film historian Kevin Brownlow discusses French film director Abel Gance:

Kevin Brownlow on Abel Gance
(video by PikaB)

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Kevin Brownlow at Killruddery Silent Film Festival 2009:

Kevin Brownlow at Killruddery Silent Film Festival 2009: Part 1/3
(video by DOCUMENTAVi)

Kevin Brownlow at Killruddery Silent Film Festival 2009: Part 2/3
(video by DOCUMENTAVi)

Kevin Brownlow at Killruddery Silent Film Festival 2009: Part 3/3
(video by DOCUMENTAVi)

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Kevin Brownlow received the 2010 Governors Award, together with the great director Jean-Luc Godard and with Eli Wallach, one of the finest Hollywood's character actors. Kevin Brownlow was also invited in Tribeca on this occasion. Jack Goelman and Pola Rapaport were there and told me about the event.

(Jack Goelman)