This Twenty-First Anniversary Retrospective offers an invaluable overview of the Edinburgh Film Guild’s activities from 1930 to 1950.
This retrospective including a comprehensive listing of all screenings, exhibitions, discussions and lectures held during the Guild’s first 20 years.
Contents:
History and Achievements, by Normal Wilson (Chairman of the Edinburgh Film Guild)
- The founding and first years ∘ Children’s Films ∘ The War Years ∘ Specialised Shows ∘ Establishing the first Guild ‘Film House’
- Establishing the Edinburgh International Film Festival and a summary of its first four years.
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 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)
