Travelling Cinema in Europe
The book Travelling Cinema in Europe. Sources and Perspectives, edited by Martin Loiperdinger and published as KINtop Schriften 10, presents the proceedings of the international conference Travelling Cinema in Europe, which was held from 6 to 8 September 2007 in the cinema of the Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg. The conference took place within the framework of the Travelling Cinema Project which was organized by the Cinémathèque and Trier University's Media Studies Department as part of "Luxembourg and the Greater Region, European Capital of Culture 2007". Besides the conference, as its academic section, the Travelling Cinema Project embraced multimedia production and elaborate screening practice: i. e., making the DVD Crazy Cinématographe. Europäisches Jahrmarktkino 1896-1916, and, most importantly, performing screenings of early film programmes in the travelling cinema tent Crazy Cinématographe, which had been created by the Cinémathèque for film shows on fairs in Luxembourg and in four cities of the Greater Region. Thus, the conference was embedded in a screening practice project which realized the revival of early cinema among today's fairground visitors, and brought early cinema back to the environment within which it had spent its formative years around 1900, before the boom of the creation of fixed-site cinemas provided permanent access to the film medium, even in smaller communities, from 1906 onward.
Published as part of the kintop journal series, this book brings together research in to early travelling cinema shows throughout Europe. Written for a varied readership of academics, historians and enthusiasts; the book includes detailed research and contextual information with full illustrations throughout. 222 pages, fully illustrated.
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Contents of the book
Martin Loiperdinger
Introduction
Travelling Cinema in Europe before the First World War
Vanessa Toulmin
Within the Reach of All : Travelling Cinematograph Shows on British Fairgrounds 1896 - 1914
Matthew Solomon
Fairground Illusions and the Magic of Méliès
Mustafa Özen
Travelling Cinema in Istanbul
Ralf Forster
Easy to Handle and Part of the Novelty : Equipment for Travelling Cinemas in Early Trade Catalogues
Daniel Fritsch
The Paradoxical Austrian Travelling Showmen's : Magazine Die Schwalbe
Joseph Garncarz
The Fairground Cinema - A European Institution
Travelling Cinema in Luxembourg and the Greater Region before the First World War
Uli Jung
Travelling Cinematograph Shows in the Greater Region of Luxembourg : An Overview
Paul Lesch
Travelling Cinematograph Shows in Luxembourg
Brigitte Braun
Marzen's Travelling Town Hall Cinematograph in the Greater Region of Luxembourg
Non-commercial Travelling Cinema in Europe from the 1890s to the 1960s
Torsten Gärtner
The Church on Wheels Travelling Magic Lantern Mission in late Victorian England
Thomas Tode
Agit-trains, Agit-steamers, Cinema Trucks : Dziga Vertov and Travelling Cinema in the early 1920s in the Soviet Union
Urszula Biel
German and Polish Agitation through Travelling Cinemas in the 1920s in Upper Silesia
Yvonne Zimmermann
Training and Entertaining Consumers : Travelling Corporate Film Shows in Switzerland
Christian Kuchler
Catholic Travelling Film Shows in West Germany after the Second World War
Epilogue
Claude Bertemes
Cinématographe Reloaded : Notes on the Fairground Cinema Project Crazy Cinématographe
The Authors
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