They didn’t take it seriously at first in 1918 either. ‘Have you had the new Influenza yet?’ asked the ‘Kinetosities’ gossip column in the Bioscope in early July. The column observed that what with all the pressures of running a wartime cinema, ‘the prospects of twelve extra drills and the twenty hours police duty on … Continue reading ‘Have you had the new Influenza yet?’: The Bioscope, the Cinema and the Epidemic, 1918-19 →