{"id":322,"date":"2020-07-08T10:22:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T09:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/limit\/?p=322"},"modified":"2020-07-08T10:22:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T09:22:04","slug":"a-walk-through-loughboroughs-cinema-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/limit\/2020\/07\/08\/a-walk-through-loughboroughs-cinema-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A walk through Loughborough’s cinema history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Because of coronavirus, Loughborough’s cinemas have been empty and silent for the last four months. While we wait for them to be lively again, American Studies lecturer Dr Andrew Dix<\/a> has created a podcast which recaptures the vivid history of the town’s film-watching from the end of the nineteenth century to the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew takes a walk not only to the Odeon and Cineworld that are still thriving, but to Loughborough’s several ‘ghost cinemas’: those sites, now put to other uses, where townspeople once gathered to watch films. We will hear about the Victory, the Playhouse and Vint’s Electric Hippodrome – and about the community’s film-viewing even before the coming of purpose-built cinemas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In my film studies work, I’m interested not only in what’s on screen but, increasingly, in the places in which people watch movies \u2013 and where better to research than Loughborough itself?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThrough audio and images, I tell the story of eight locations in Loughborough where people have watched films from the 1890s to the present, including one cinema that boasted about its high-quality heating system, and another that was previously a roller-skating rink. I hope that in the podcast the town’s ghost-cinemas, as well as its two current ones, come alive.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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