Early Cinema in Scotland

John Caughie is Emeritus Professor at Glasgow University and Honorary Research Professor in Film & Television Studies. He was Principal Investigator on the three-year AHRC research project, ‘Early Scottish Cinema, 1896-1927’, was a member of the editorial group of Screen until 2014, and is a member of the HoMER Network. He served on the Council of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2005-2010, and was Chair of its Research Committee. Trevor Griffiths is Reader in Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh. Educated at the University of Oxford, he has carried out research on working-class society in Britain in the early twentieth century, before turning more recently to examine aspects of popular culture. He was Co-Investigator on the three-year AHRC research project, ‘Early Scottish Cinema, 1896-1927’. Maria A. Velez-Serna is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Stirling, working on pop-up cinema exhibition. She was the Postdoctoral Researcher on the Early Cinema in Scotland project, after completing her PhD at the University of Glasgow. She has also published on Colombian cinema history and is a member of the HoMER Network (History of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception).

• 1: Introduction2: Travelling bioscopes and borrowed spaces, María A. Vélez-Serna3: Fixed-site cinemas and the first film renters, María A. Vélez Serna4: Cinema and cinema-going in small towns, John Caughie5: Making a living at the cinema: Scottish cinema staff in the silent era, Trevor Griffiths6: Early Municipal Cinema, Julia Bohlmann7: Rob Roy: Britain’s first feature film, Caroline Merz8: Local films for local people: ‘Have you been Cinematographed Yet?’, John Caughie and Janet McBain9: Depicting Scotland: Scotland in early films, John Caughie10: The Talkies Triumphant: Scottish Cinema and the Coming of Sound, Trevor Griffiths11: Filmography, John CaughieBibliography