Author: Lawrence

I teach Film Studies at King's College London. I'm gonna be posting mainly about film-going in Britain in the early C20th, drawing on my own research activities. Previously I've written on British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years (University of Exeter Press, 2009), The Great War and Popular British Cinema in the 1920s (Palgrave, 2015) and Silent Cinema: Before the Pictures Got Small (Wallflower, 2017)

‘Dr. Wise on Influenza’: Public information films and the ‘flu epidemic of 1918

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzQNKEpNciI   ‘Whilst many persons are railing against the cinema as a disseminator of disease, there is, I am glad to find, one gentleman who is putting theatre to good account as an influenza combatant.’[1] Previously I reported on some of the debates that the influenza epidemic of 1918 precipitated within the cinema trade. In … Continue reading ‘Dr. Wise on Influenza’: Public information films and the ‘flu epidemic of 1918 →