This book focuses on the emerging historical relations between British television and film culture in the 1950s. Drawing upon archival research it does this by exploring the development of the early cinema programme on television principally Current Release BBC 19523 Picture Parade BBC 1956 and Film Fanfare ABC 19567 and argues that it was these texts which played the central role in the developing relations between the media. Particularly when it comes to Britain the early coexistence of television and cinema has been seen as hostile and antagonistic but in situating these programmes within the contexts of their institutional production aesthetic construction and reception the book aims to ampamplsquoreconstructampamprsquo televisionampamprsquos coverage of the cinema as crucial to the fabric of British film and television culture at the time.