Dear colleagues

Those of you interested in the study of historical cinema audiences might like to learn of a new resource from the twin projects Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain (CCINTB) and Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive (CMDA).

All core CCINTB interviewees have their own home pages on the CMDA website, as do a number of pilot interviewees and participants who sent in letters, essays and other writings setting out their cinemagoing memories.

The majority of the home pages were composed during 2020 and 2021 as part of the process of editing and formatting interview transcripts and other participant materials in preparation for their addition to the website. Other pages have been added from time to time since (for example for participants mentioned in blogs), with more substantial additions and revisions made during 2025.

As well as providing background information on participants and summarising the contents of their contributions, home pages include links to archival assets associated with each participant (interview audio and transcripts, correspondence, memorabilia, etc) as well as to relevant items available on external websites.

For further information and links to two versions of the compilation, visit
[www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/cmda/index.php/compilation-of-participant-home-pages/)

With all good wishes

Annette Kuhn FBA
Emeritus Professor in Film Studies
Queen Mary University of London
Co-Investigator Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive – 1930s Britain & Beyond (lancaster.ac.uk)
Latest CMDA blog Cinema, childhood, memory – Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive