eprintid: 106442 rev_number: 27 eprint_status: archive userid: 15745 dir: disk0/00/10/64/42 datestamp: 2015-05-20 14:03:20 lastmod: 2020-05-28 09:50:50 status_changed: 2015-05-20 14:03:20 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Velez-Serna, Maria Antonia title: Preview screenings and the spaces of an emerging local cinema trade in Scotland ispublished: pub divisions: 10101000 full_text_status: public abstract: Selecting and booking films to make up a programme that suited a particular audience was a crucial skill for exhibitors in the competitive conditions of the early cinema trade in Britain. This article argues that access to trade previews of the films was necessary for this choice to be meaningful, and it studies the emergence and regularisation of trade shows in Glasgow, Scotland, as an indicator of the forms of agency retained by independent cinema managers and renters. By documenting its different local manifestations up to 1920, the trade preview is shown to be a particular reception context, with its own spaces and codes of conduct. Furthermore, in a thriving non-metropolitan film trade, such as the Scottish one, it was an important social routine where informal networks could be nurtured and information shared. Thus, by looking at the micro-cosmos of the private projection room, it is possible to get a glimpse of how the trade functioned on the ground and how it understood its social position during a time of great upheaval, before it conformed to a more centralised, institutional model. date: 2016 date_type: published publication: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television volume: 36 number: 3 publisher: Taylor & Francis pagerange: 285-304 id_number: 10.1080/01439685.2015.1052222 refereed: TRUE issn: 0143-9685 copyright_holders: Copyright © 2015 The Author prior: First published in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 36(3): 285-304 repro: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License uniqueid: glaseprints:2016-106442 published_online: 2015-06-10 issn_online: 1465-3451 funding_project_code: 54373 funding_award_no: 1 funding_project_name: Early cinema in Scotland, 1896-1927 funding_investigator_name: John Caughie funding_funder_name: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding_funder_code: AH/I020535/1 funding_investigator_dept: ARTS LAB hoa_compliant: 9205 hoa_ref_pan: CD hoa_date_pub: 2015-06-10 hoa_date_foa: 2015-12-15 hoa_version_fcd: VoR hoa_exclude: FALSE hoa_gold: TRUE oa_research_materials_ack: No rioxx2_license_ref_input_license_ref: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ rioxx2_license_ref_input_start_date: 2016-04-25 rioxx2_apc_input: unknown citation: Velez-Serna, M. A. (2016) Preview screenings and the spaces of an emerging local cinema trade in Scotland. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television , 36(3), pp. 285-304. (doi: 10.1080/01439685.2015.1052222 ) document_url: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/106442/7/106442.pdf