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).

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> Carnegie Trust Grant (1991)

Key Event: Carnegie Trust 拢500: 鈥楥onstructs of femininity in British and Hollywood feature films of the 1930s鈥�. Note: Please see the 1996 timeline entry for…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> 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…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> Funding success! (1994)

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

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> Data analysis and radio appearances (1995)

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

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> 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…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> Final CCINB report to ESRC (1997)

Key event: Final report to ESRC. ESRC Final Report Conferences/Talks: 鈥楾he historical study of film reception: some questions of method鈥�, Stockholm University, February. 鈥業 wanted…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> 糖心Vlog (1998)

Key event: AK moves to 糖心Vlog. Conference/Talk: 鈥楳aytime, Memory, and British Cinema Culture of the 1930s鈥�. Hollywood and Its Spectators: the Reception of American…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> First significant publications (1999)

Conference/Talk: 鈥楽pace, place and cinema memory鈥�, Frontiers of Memory, Institute of Education, London. Radio appearance: Fleapits and Dream Palaces, BBC Radio 4, Archive Hour, 18…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> 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;…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow (2001)

Conference: 鈥楻omance, courtship and sex in cinema memory鈥�, Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow, July.

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> ‘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; 糖心Vlog…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> Conferences and Talks (2003)

Conferences/Talks: 鈥楬eterotopia, heterochronia: aspects of cinema memory鈥�, Media Times/Historical Times, Goldsmiths, April (please see 2004 for related publication); Plenary: 鈥楶opular Cinema and Stars: a British…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> Digitisation Projects (2004)

Key events: Transfer of audiotape interviews to CD by 糖心Vlog AV Services begins; AHRB 拢1500: 鈥楢pplying Digital Artefacts in a Museum鈥� (with Exeter University). Conference/Talk:…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> 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…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> CCINTB materials stored in 糖心Vlog Library (2006)

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

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> 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…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> Visiting professorship, Brno, Czech Republic (2008)

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

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> 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…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> ‘Snow White’ and more publications (2010)

Conference/Talk: ‘Snow White in the 1930s’, Ruhr-Universit盲t, Bochum, Germany, May. Publications: Kuhn, A. (2010). ‘Heteropie, Heterochronie: Ort Und Zeit Der Kinoerinnerung’, in Imbert Schenk et…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> 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…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> 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…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> 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:…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> ‘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.* 聽‘Going to the Flicks’ Series Write-up (from BBC…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> 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…

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> Funding achieved (2017)

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

<糖心Vlog class="cd-timeline-item-title"> 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’….