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Title: |
Cleveland Cinema Club Records |
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Repository: |
Western Reserve Historical Society
Phone: 216-721-5722 http://www.wrhs.org |
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Creator: |
Cleveland Cinema Club |
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Dates: |
1927-1968 |
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Quantity: |
1.20 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize volume) |
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Abstract: |
The Cleveland Cinema Club was founded in 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, to study motion pictures and their effects on society. The club rated films, monitored legislation, and helped organize film appreciation groups. The collection consists of membership applications, minutes, financial records, an attendance register, correspondence, a publicity scrapbook, miscellaneous printed matter, and plans for motion picture festivals in 1938 and 1939. |
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Identification: |
MS 3551 |
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Location: |
closed stacks |
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Language: |
The records are in English |
The Cleveland Cinema Club was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1917 to raise the moral and artistic standards of the motion picture industry in the United States. The first organization of its kind in the United States, it grew out of the "better films" movement. Each year, the organization created a list of suitable films to be shown to school children during lunch time, and it created a film festival in 1938. Active until 1968, the group also published a bulletin that rated current films.
The Cleveland Cinema Club Records, ca. 1927-1968 and undated, consist of membership applications, minutes, financial records, an attendance register, correspondence, a publicity scrapbook, miscellaneous printed matter, and plans for motion picture festivals in 1938 and 1939.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of Cleveland, Ohio, and societal attitudes toward the film industry in the 1930s-1960s.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 3551 Cleveland Cinema Club Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio