CCINTB Timeline – Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive

Note: All conferences and talks referred to in the timeline were given by Annette Kuhn (AK), unless indicated otherwise, while working at the universities of Glasgow (up to 1998), Lancaster (up to 2006) and Queen Mary University of London (present).

Carnegie Trust Grant (1991)

Key Event: Carnegie Trust £500: ‘Constructs of femininity in British and Hollywood feature films of the 1930s’. Note: Please see the 1996 timeline entry for…

Film Screenings and Conference Paper (1992)

1930s Film Screenings A season of six popular 1930s films screened at the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) as part of the Carnegie Trust- funded research…

Funding success! (1994)

Key events: Two-year ESRC project £84360: ‘Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain: Ethnohistory of a Popular Cultural Practice’. Research Proposal (excerpt from original Project Bid) Appointment…

Data analysis and radio appearances (1995)

Key events: Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDA) course, University of Surrey, March; Report: ‘Computing and the 1930s cinema project’, April; CAQDAS Report AK and VB…

Early findings and dissemination (1996)

Key events: Early findings reported at conferences; AK discussion document on interview analysis, March; Interview Analysis discussion paper Exhibition curated by Veronica Low, Screen Studies…

Final CCINB report to ESRC (1997)

Key event: Final report to ESRC. ESRC Final Report Conferences/Talks: ‘The historical study of film reception: some questions of method’, Stockholm University, February. ‘I wanted…

Lancaster University (1998)

Key event: AK moves to Lancaster University. Conference/Talk: ‘Maytime, Memory, and British Cinema Culture of the 1930s’. Hollywood and Its Spectators: the Reception of American…

First significant publications (1999)

Conference/Talk: ‘Space, place and cinema memory’, Frontiers of Memory, Institute of Education, London. Radio appearance: Fleapits and Dream Palaces, BBC Radio 4, Archive Hour, 18…

More Conferences and Publications (2000)

Key Event: Tarzan questionnaire (please see 2005 entry for related publication by Sarah Smith). Tarzan Questionnaire (scan of original questionnaire) Conferences/Talks: Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow;…

Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow (2001)

Conference: ‘Romance, courtship and sex in cinema memory’, Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow, July.

‘An Everyday Magic’ (2002)

Key events: Publication of An Everyday Magic (in the USA under the title Remembering Fred and Ginger); Plans laid for extending the project; Lancaster University…

Conferences and Talks (2003)

Conferences/Talks: ‘Heterotopia, heterochronia: aspects of cinema memory’, Media Times/Historical Times, Goldsmiths, April (please see 2004 for related publication); Plenary: ‘Popular Cinema and Stars: a British…

Digitisation Projects (2004)

Key events: Transfer of audiotape interviews to CD by Lancaster University AV Services begins; AHRB £1500: ‘Applying Digital Artefacts in a Museum’ (with Exeter University). Conference/Talk:…

Annual Lecture at University of Leeds (2005)

Conference/Talk: ‘Cinema, modernity and femininity in 1930s Britain’, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Annual Lecture, University of Leeds, October. Publications: Smith, Sarah J. (2005), Children, Cinema…

CCINTB materials stored in Lancaster University Library (2006)

Key events: CCINTB materials lodged in Special Collections, Lancaster University; AK moves to Queen Mary, University of London. Conference/Talk: ‘What to do with cinema memory’,…

Lecture and a Plenary (2007)

Key Event: Snow White questionnaire. Conferences/Talks: ‘Snow White in the 1930s‘, Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture, Bishopsgate Institute, London, November (please see 2010 entry for related publication…

Visiting professorship, Brno, Czech Republic (2008)

Key event: Guest Professor, course of six lectures on CCINTB, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, November.

Vancouver Conference and another publication (2009)

Conference: ‘What to do with cinema memory‘, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver 2009. Publications: Kuhn, A. (2009). ‘Film Stars in 1930s Britain: A Case Study in…

‘Snow White’ and more publications (2010)

Conference/Talk: ‘Snow White in the 1930s’, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany, May. Publications: Kuhn, A. (2010). ‘Heteropie, Heterochronie: Ort Und Zeit Der Kinoerinnerung’, in Imbert Schenk et…

And more publications… (2011)

Publications: Kuhn, A. (2011). ‘Snow White in Grossbritannien (1938)’, in Gudrun Sommer et al (ed.), Orte Filmischen Wissens: Filmkulttur Und Filmvermittlung Im Zeitalter Digitaler Netzwerke…

Opening Address, NECS Annual Conference (2013)

Conference/Talk: ‘Cinema audiences and memory’. Opening speech, HoMER meeting, NECS Annual Conference, Prague, June. Publication: Kuhn, Annette (2013), ‘Home Is Where We Start From’, in…

Academia Film Festival (2014)

Conference/Talk: ‘Understanding Personal and Cultural Memory through Visual Media’, Academia Film Festival, Olomouc, Czech Republic, April. Publications: Kuhn, A. (2014). ‘Sloiki Po Dzemie I Cliffhangery:…

‘Going to the Flicks’, BBC Radio 4 (2015)

Radio programme: ‘Going to the Flicks’, BBC Radio 4, ‘Archive on 4’, 10th and 11th January, 2015.* ‘Going to the Flicks’ Series Write-up (from BBC…

Prep work for CMDA Project (2016)

Key event: Further plans to extend the project: work begins on what will become ‘Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive’ (CMDA). Conference/Talk: ‘Cinema culture in…

Funding achieved (2017)

Key event: LU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences £1945 for continued digitisation of CCINTB audiotapes; Queen Mary School of Languages, Linguistics and Film £1300…

Plenary and AHRC bid for CMDA submitted (2018)

Key event: AHRC bid: ‘Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive: 1930s Britain and Beyond’, submitted June. Conferences/Talks: ‘Film history, cultural memory and the experience of cinema’….