Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive

In Autumn 1994, Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain Research Fellow Valentina Bold renewed an earlier contact with Hamiltonhill, a day centre in Possil, Glasgow where she had conducted interviews with some of its elderly users before joining the project. She arranged to carry out three further interviews, and five of the centre's clients were interviewed for CCINTB. Lilian Buik was among them. Mrs Buik was born in Dobbies Loan, Glasgow, in 1913. She had one sister, and her mother died when she was very young; her father was an electrician, and her jobs had included serving in a butcher's shop and work in a hospital. On 18 November 1994, she took part in a five-way interview at Hamiltonhill, the other four interviewees being John Shearer, Sarah Irvine, Nellie (Helen) Donaghy, and Davy (David) Paterson

Discussion during this interview centres mainly on the range and variety of cinemas in the Glasgow area, with recollections of the buildings' interior features and the various forms of entertainment on offer, as well as reflections on the behaviour of cinemagoers. Other leisure pursuits, such as children’s games and dancing, are also remembered.

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