Day 2

Day 2: Le cinéma chez soi

Day 2: Le cinéma chez soi

[Focus on this day is on the home projection equipment and film library]

Keynote screening: Happy Birthday Baby! The INEDITS "100 years - 100 films" project

Mirco Santi (president of Inedits)

Programme * Times shown as BST – British Summer Time (GMT/UTC + 1)


10:00-10:15 Welcome & housekeeping

10:15-11.15 Inedits -Keynote live screening

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-12.45 Session 1

12:45-13:45 Lunch

13:45-15:00 Session 2

15:00 Close of formal session - self guided screenings


*Timings subject to change

Programme Detail


10:00-10:15 Welcome & Housekeeping

10:15-11:15 Keynote screening: Mirco Santi (president of Inedits): Happy Birthday Baby! The INEDITS "100 years - 100 films" project

Break 11:15-11:30

Session 1 (11:30-12:45) Chair: Dr Malcolm Cook

Tim van der Heijden (Open University of the Netherlands): (Re)discovering the Pathé-Baby: an experimental media archaeological approach to early-twentieth century home cinema

Zoë Viney Burgess (University of Southampton): ‘We ordinary poor mortals have the consolation of knowing that the price always comes down later on’ - Charting the affordability of 9.5 1922-1950

Mats Björkin (Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg): A Box of Documents and Dreams: Reconstructing a 1920s Home Entertainment System

Lunch 12:45-13:45

Session 2 (13:45-15:00) Chair: Dr Ryan Shand

Martin Johnson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): A library of practical knowledge: 9.5mm and the Pathe catalogue

Dana Enani (Cimatheque): Through the lens of Home movie stars

Alo Paistik (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): Some thoughts on the themes and forms of French 9.5mm amateur films of the 1920s and 1930s

Close 15:00- Self Guided Screenings -