A Social History of the Cinema in Wales, 1918-1951: Pulpits, Coal Pits and Fleapits"A Social History of the Cinema in Wales" offers a perspective on the place of cinema in Welsh popular culture. The 'golden age' of cinema entertainment is now half a century behind us, yet it continues to linger in popular memory. |
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Page 105
Pulpits, Coal Pits and Fleapits Peter Miskell. LO 5 CINEMA ENTERTAINMENT Throughout the period covered by this book the majority of films screened in British ( and Welsh ) cinemas were American in origin . This had not always been the ...
Pulpits, Coal Pits and Fleapits Peter Miskell. LO 5 CINEMA ENTERTAINMENT Throughout the period covered by this book the majority of films screened in British ( and Welsh ) cinemas were American in origin . This had not always been the ...
Page 118
... cinema achieved the appeal it did because the programmes of entertainment were so varied . However , as long as the cinema maintained its position as the dominant form of public mass entertainment , it made every effort to provide as ...
... cinema achieved the appeal it did because the programmes of entertainment were so varied . However , as long as the cinema maintained its position as the dominant form of public mass entertainment , it made every effort to provide as ...
Page 184
... Cinema managers could not take their customers for granted and developed their own advertising and publicity campaigns to keep the audiences coming in . On some occasions cinema ... entertainment against which it competed was the contrast ...
... Cinema managers could not take their customers for granted and developed their own advertising and publicity campaigns to keep the audiences coming in . On some occasions cinema ... entertainment against which it competed was the contrast ...
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