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Book Review: The Dream That Kicks: The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain

Book Review: The Dream That Kicks: The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain

Review: The Dream That Kicks: The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain by Michael Chanan

Book Review| July 01 1980 Review: The Dream That Kicks: The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain by Michael Chanan The Dream That Kicks: The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in BritainMichael Chanan John Fell John Fell Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Film Quarterly (1980) 33 (4): 43–44. https://doi.org/10.2307/1212012 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John Fell; Review: The Dream That Kicks: The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain by Michael Chanan. Film Quarterly 1 July 1980; 33 (4): 43–44. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/1212012 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentFilm Quarterly Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1980 The Regents of University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

: The Dream That Kicks: The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain . Michael Chanan.

: The Dream That Kicks: The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain . Michael Chanan.

Continental and Otherwise: The Specialized Cinema in Britain

ENTERTAINMENT PATTERNS VARY with location, with climate, and with culture. One of the variations in patterns applies to the specialized-cinema audiences which appear in different countries, their structure, and the means which exist to satisfy them. It is the purpose of this article to describe the situation in one country-Britain. Specialized cinema, used in a very general way, refers both to private-membership film societies and to the British equivalent of American art theaters. Most of the following references are to Scottish situations, but it can be assumed that these indicate obliquely what is available in most specialized cinemas throughout Britain. Despite the success of film societies in some centers, the specialist filmgoer in Britain is still-on any absolute standard-rather poorly served. Although he is able to see many of the contemporary French and Italian productions, he finds it much more difficult to sample the new films from other countries, especially those from Germany, Sweden, and Spain; and he sees practically none from Asia and South America. And what is perhaps more annoying, he is still poorly served on a relative basis. In most Swedish cities, for example, it is comparatively easy to pick up films from five or six countries within a few weeks, and in Stockholm within one week. The reason for this richness

Continental and Otherwise: The Specialized Cinema in Britain

Continental and Otherwise: The Specialized Cinema in Britain

New Vistas for the Film in Britain

BASIL WRIGHT'S article complements Arthur Mayer's “Fact Into Film,” published in the Summer 1944 issue of this QUARTERLY. Mr. Mayer concerned himself primarily with the documentary and informational film in the United States. Mr. Wright discusses the spectacular development of the same type of film in Britain. The British experience, Mr. Wright believes, might be an important contribution to the United Nations' efforts to establish international understanding. Mr. Wright is a distinguished director and film critic as well as a pioneer in the British documentary movement. At present he is Executive Director of the famed London Film Center.