A Wikipedia page for Stephen was launched in November 2023:
May 2025
Karrie Fransman has been awarded The Stephen Herbert Award for 2025, which will enable her to explore the pre and early cinema collections of The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. Karrie is a graphic artist and illustrator who is inspired by the visual storytelling and sensations offered by devices such as the peep show, the magic lantern, and the magic mirror that also fascinated Stephen. Karrie’s research with the museum will lead to creation of new works of art.
June 2024
The Stephen Herbert Award has been won by Juliette Losq (London based artist and researcher) who is working on installation drawings for peep shows and hopes to create a raree show.
May 2024
The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum have now announced the details of the The Stephen Herbert Award. The Award will enable a researcher to come to the Museum to consult their early cinema or optical media holdings.
The deadline for applications is 10 June.
https://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/news/the-stephen-herbert-award/
February 2024
The Stephen Herbert Archive
The Centre for Early Cinema in Leeds is in its initial stage of development at Leeds Beckett University. The Stephen Herbert Archive will be a cornerstone of that development. Access at this stage can be arranged through Professor Robert Shail of Leeds School of Arts at Beckett: r.shail@leedsbeckett.ac.uk. Full access will be available as soon as scoping of the project is complete.
The Centre will also house Stephen’s collection of over 500 books on early visual media.
Some of Stephen’s collections have been donated to The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter, including his research papers on Magic Mirrors, Wordsworth Donisthorpe and Theodore Brown. The papers are currently being catalogued but can still be accessed for research in their reading room. Contact bdc@exeter.ac.uk for further details.
A stipend in Stephen’s name for up to £500 will also be advertised in April. This will be for a scholar or independent researcher to visit The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum to research the optical media or early cinema collections.
The Curator, Dr. Phil Wickham says: “We particularly welcome applications from postgraduates, early career scholars or independent researchers who would otherwise find it difficult to fund such a visit”.
January 25th 2024
A celebration of Stephen’s life was held at the BFI for his friends and colleagues, including Lauren Oliver from the USA and Freddy Striuli from Italy. Luke McKernan, Deac Rossell, and David Leister spoke about Stephen’s achievements among a wide field, and others had the opportunity to share their memories.
Everyone gathered in the screening rooms to watch a video of Stephen recounting stories of his first projectionist job at a London fleapit cinema, to getting the position at MOMI / NFT in the 1990s.
John Adderley had many interviews on Zoom with Stephen before he died, and these videos will available privately on YouTube soon.
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