Some 315 questionnaires completed by 1930s cinemagoers from across the UK. All of the interviews, originally conducted in the 1990s, have been transcribed, so visitors to the website can read accurate transcriptions of the interviews while listening to them Interviews with members of the general public who were regular cinemagoers in the UK during the 1930s.The project also includes a range of other historical materials related to cinemagoing in interwar Britain and the cinemagoing experience more generally Now the new dedicated and easy-to-navigate website, created by Dr Julia McDowell of Lancaster University, and the digitisation of the entire collection means all these materials are available in digital format to members of the general public as well as academic researchers. Working with Lancaster’s Professor Richard Rushton were distinguished UK film scholar Professor Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary University of London), who actually conducted the original CCINTB research while working at Glasgow and Lancaster Universities in the 1990s and early-2000s, and Professor Sarah Neely (University of Glasgow), a specialist in the areas of film history and archival research. Focus on silver screen stars and cinema-going now open to all The starting point for the project focused on materials gathered during the course of ‘ Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain’ (CCINTB), a large-scale pioneering nationwide inquiry, conducted in the 1990s, into cinema audiences and film going in the 1930s. The project expands both public and academic knowledge and understanding of how audiences relate to and remember the experience of cinema-going. The Lancaster team worked with experts from Queen Mary University of London and the University of Glasgow to produce the ‘ Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive: 1930s Britain and Beyond’ (CMDA). Researchers have framed up a new ‘take’ on going to the pictures from the 1930s onwards.Īnd the three-year project, led by Lancaster University and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, has resulted in the cataloguing and digitisation of a wealth of materials stored at the University’s Library. A product that is first of its kind made with passion for true lovers of cinema.Focus on silver screen stars and cinema-going now open to all It also has copies of original posters of old classics printed in it.ġ01 Silver Screen Stars is great collector’s pack that can be adored for life time. It would not be wrong to call this pack a mini encyclopedia for our Bollywood as it captures the details of 101 stars of the industry.Īnother interesting add-on with the pack is a bollywood diary that captures the beginning of cinema to the development till date. Through an audio visual medium, it briefs you about the awards they received, list of films that they did, many interesting anecdotes and their songs. Segments of selected stars including Madhubala from the DVD pack were screened at the inauguration of the exhibition of original Bollywood posters at Galerie Max Mueller, part of the Century of Cinema, a project that celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema with prominent actors, musicians and filmmakersġ01 Silver Screen Stars is an effort put by Shemaroo to tell the story of the stars who have contributed in carving and shaping the Indian film industry and made huge difference to its 100 years. On the occasion of the birth anniversary of Madhubala, Shemaroo presents her niece Bharti Jaffrey (Ashok Kumar’s daughter) and the actress Anuradha Patel (Ashok Kumar’s grand daughter) 101 Silver Screen Stars, a 4 dvd gift pack that features the diva and encapsulates her journey as a star and as an individual. Rarely has heart played such an important role in anyone’s life as hers, right from the emotional and romantic to the medical, as she was born with a hole in her heart.” “It could not be a coincidence that the Venus of the Indian Screen, Madhubala was born on the Valentine’s Day, as she lived her entire life with her heart.
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