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Pestilential hotbeds of vice - cinema-management and morality in Britain, c. 1900-1950 With Dr Robert James, University of Portsmouth

A Historical Association and University of Plymouth History department talk.

Join us to investigate the activities of cinema managers across Britain in the first half of the 20th Century. In this talk Dr Robert James, University of Portsmouth, will explore the practices of the cinema industry at this time, and the lengths managers went to in defending their trade against criticism.

How did cinema managers establish a balance between respectability and profit?

Learn about the care taken to promote the films in ways that would appease the sensibilities of regular...