Screen1900: Programme

Programme of the Conference (as of 23 May 2007)

Thursday, 6 September 2007

13.00               Conference Opening

Panel 1: Travelling Cinema in Europe Before World War One

Chair: Uli Jung (Trier)

13.30 – 15.00  Vanessa Toulmin (Sheffield): "The World at Your Doorsteps": Travelling Cinematograph Shows in the United Kingdom               

Matthew Solomon (New York): Méliès and the Fairground

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break

                        Chair: Martin Loiperdinger (Trier)

15.30 - 17.00  Joseph Garncarz (Siegen): Travelling Cinema - A European Institution

Guido Convents (Brussels): International Travelling Cinemas in Belgium

17.30 – 18.00 Coffee Break

                        Chair: Claude Bertemes (Luxemburg)

18.00 – 19.30  Daniel Fritsch (Berlin): Attraction or institution? The Austrian travelling showbusiness magazine Die Schwalbe

Mustafa Ozen (Utrecht): Travelling Cinemas in Istanbul

20.00               Dinner

Friday, 7 September 2007

Panel 1 continued

Chair: Martin Loiperdinger (Trier)

09.00-10.30    Ralf Forster (Potsdam): Film technology for travelling cinemas in trade catalogues                 

Jeanpaul Goergen (Berlin): Memories of Travelling Cinema Showmen

10.30-11.00    Coffee Break

Panel 2: Non-commercial Uses of Travelling Film and Picture Shows

11.00 - 13.30  Chair: Frank Kessler (Utrecht)

Torsten Gärtner (Trier): The Church on Wheels - Travelling Magic Lantern Mission in Late Victorian England

Christian Kuchler (München): Catholic Mission through Travelling Film Shows in Bavaria

Yvonne Zimmermann (Zürich): Advertising Brands through Travelling Corporate Film Shows in Switzerland

13.30 – 15.00 Lunch Break

15.00 – 16.30 Chair: Ludwig Vogl-Bienek (Trier)

Urszula Biel (Gliwice): German and Polish Agitation through Travelling Cinemas in Upper Silesia

Thomas Tode (Hamburg): Agitprop through Travelling Cinemas on Rail in the Soviet Union

16.30 -17.00   Coffee Break

Panel 3: Re-Animation of Travelling Cinema

17.00-19.00    Chair: Nico de Klerk (Amsterdam)

Evelyn Hampicke (Berlin): After Many Years - Travelling Cinema Films between Sentiment, Conservation and Propaganda

Karolin Herzog, Jörg Witte (Saarbrücken): Cinéfleuve - A Cinema
Floating Through the Greater Region

Claude Bertemes (Luxemburg), Brigitte Braun (Trier), Nicole Dahlen (Luxemburg), Uli Jung (Trier), Martin Loiperdinger (Trier), Vanessa Toulmin (Sheffield): Crazy Cinématographe, European Capital of Culture – Re-Animating Fairground Cinema In 2007

20.00 -            Crazy Cinématographe, Schueberfouer, Luxembourg map

Saturday, 8 September 2007

Panel 4: Travelling Cinema in the Greater Region

09.00 – 10.30  Chair: Ludwig Vogl-Bienek (Trier)

Uli Jung (Trier): Travelling Cinema in the Greater Region - an Overview

Paul Lesch (Dudelange): Travelling Cinema in Luxemburg

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 - 12.30 Chair: Frank Kessler (Utrecht)

Gerhild Krebs (Saarbrücken): Travelling Cinema in the Saar Region

Brigitte Braun (Trier): Travelling Stand-Alone Film Shows in the Greater Region

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch Break

Closing Discussion

13.30 – 15.00 Closing Discussion

Chair: Martin Loiperdinger (Trier)

Commentator: Deac Rossell (London)

15.00               End of Conference