A Lower Middle-Class Taste-Community in the 1930s: Admissions figures at the Regent Cinema, Portsmouth, UK

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 565-587

  Harper, Sue ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61149376989     PISSN: 01439685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0143968042000293874     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Allen Eyles, Hits and misses at the Empire, Picture House, 13 (1989), pp. 25-47
2. Julian Poole, British cinema attendance in wartime: audience preference at the Majestic, Macclesfield, 1939-1946, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 7:1 (1987), pp. 15-34
3. John Sedgwick, Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: a choice of pleasures (Exeter, 2000)
4. Annette Kuhn, An Everyday Magic: cinema and cultural memory (London, 2002)
5. Statistics of Population on 29th September 1939, Divided by Sex, Age and Marital Condition: report and tables (London, 1940)
6. In June 1939, there were 264,700 people living within 9,223 acres, which is an average of 28.7 persons per acre: see S. Higgins, The Post-War Employment Situation in Portsmouth (York, 1960), pp. 3-5
7. Portsmouth Evening News, 28 April 1931
8. Kinematograph Weekly, 14 May 1931, p. 29
9. Kinematograph Weekly, 29 October 1936, p. 21
10. Kinematograph Weekly, 12 January 1939, p. 75
11. Portsmouth Evening News, 29 March 1923
12. J. Barker, R. Brown and W. Greer, The Cinemas of Portsmouth (Milestone Publications, 1981), p. 25
13. Kineweekly Year Book for 1932, p. 460
14. Allen Eyles, Gaumont British Cinemas (London, 1996), pp. 180-197
15. Kineweekly Year Book, 1930
16. Watch Committee Minutes, 2 May 1933, Minute 847
17. Kinematograph Weekly, 18 May 1933, p. 11
18. Kinematograph Weekly, 12 April 1934, p. 18
19. See also Neville Hunnings, Film Censors and the Law (London, 1976), p. 103. See Note 20
20. Portsmouth Evening News, 23 July 1938
21. Portsmouth Evening News, 19 September 1933
22. See the views of the Portsmouth CEA delegate, F. Blake, on the reception of such films in Portsmouth: 'whenever the word "love" was introduced, that also seemed to have a fatal bearing on the success of a film' (Kinematograph Weekly, 2 June 1938, p. 11)