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Audiences in the Archive

Audiences in the Archive

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Kate Holmes and Kate Newey talk to Phil Wickham, Curator of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. Phil discusses how varied the museum’s nineteenth century holdings are and what they reveal about everyday audience-going.


For more on the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, including how to visit, see: https://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk


People and Entertainments named in this podcast:

  • Filmmaker: Bill Douglas
  • Entertainment: Magic lanterns
  • Entertainment: Nineteenth-Century Panorama
  • Entertainment: Diorama Paintings
  • Entertainment: Peep (or Raree) Show
  • Performer: Albert Smith
  • Our YouTube Channel
  • YouTube video on Playbills
  • YouTube video on Music Hall Celebrity Postcards
  • Entertainment: Praxinoscope
  • Theatre Praxinoscope
  • Film: Douglas, Bill (1986) Comrades
  • Entertainment: Shadow Puppet Shows
  • Entertainment: Thaumotrope
  • YouTube video of Vampire Peep Show created as part of this project by Tony Lidington
  • Book: Della Porta, Giovanni Batista (1658) Natural Magick


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