This Twenty-First Anniversary Retrospective offers an invaluable overview of the Edinburgh Film Guild’s activities from 1930 to 1950 – including a comprehensive listing of all screenings, locations, exhibitions, discussions and lectures held during the period.
Content:
History and Achievements, by Normal Wilson (Chairman of the Edinburgh Film Guild)
> The founding and first years of the Edinburgh Film Guild
> Children’s Films
> The War Years
> Specialised Shows
> Establishing the first Guild ‘Film House’
“We needed a meeting place and committee rooms, and, if possible, a small cinema so that we could develop our headquarters into a real film centre.”
> Establishing the Edinburgh International Film Festival and a summary of its first four years.
“Film House was completed just in time to enable us to embark on the most ambitious and strenuous task we have so far undertaken…”
Twenty-one Years’ Films, by Forsyth Hardy (Honorary Secretary of the Edinburgh Film Guild)
> A Season To Remember
> Vigorous Controversy
> Effect Of The War
> Post War Seasons
> Europe After The War: French Occupation cinema; the Swedish cinema revival; post-war Italian cinema
“Film going in Edinburgh over these years would have been much less exciting without the Guild’s work.”
Film Programmes 1930-50. A comprehensive listing of all screenings (films and location), exhibitions, discussions and lectures – in date order.
Below: ‘Twenty-one Years of Cinema: A Twenty-First Anniversary Retrospective of the Work of the Edinburgh Film Guild’ (click on an image to enlarge)
