Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Cinema-going in Worktown 1. Research Programme for the Investigation of Cinema-going in Bolton 2. The Cinema Manager Speaks 3. Replies to the Boston Questionnaire Part 2: Cinema-going in Wartime 4. The Cinema in the First Three Months of the War 5. Letter and First Report from a Volunteer Film Reviewer 6. Report on Audience Preference in Film Themes 7. Report on Cinema Queue 8. Analysis of Joke Competition 9. ‘Fade-out’ Competition Report 10. Social Research and the Film 11. The Hazards of Mass-Observing 12. Notes on the Effect of the War (January-September 1941) on the Film Industry 13. 1943 Directive Replies on Favourite Films 14. The Film and Family Life 15. The Lion Has Wings 16. Let George Do It 17. The Great Dictator 18. Ships with Wings 19. Newsreel Content (28 January 1940) 20. Newsreel Report 2 (26 May 1940) 21. Newsreels (June 1940) 22. Newsreel Report 3 (6 October 1940) 23. The Faking of Newsreels 24. Interview with Kenneth Gordon 25. Fifteen Ministry of Information Shorts 26. You’re Telling Me Film Report 27. Preliminary Report on Opinion about Ministry of Information Shorts 28. Report on Ministry of Information Shorts. General Index. Index of Film Titles