Film society
They usually have an educational aim, introducing new audiences to different audiovisual works through an organized and prepared program of screenings.
Editorial output reinforces the work of these organisations, as they produce hand-programmes, brochures, schedules, information sheets, and even essays, supporting the significance of their exhibitions.
[2][3] After a wartime hiatus, the Canadian film society movement enjoyed what may now be seen as its golden age.
It was soon a victim of its own success as the groups broke away in 1954 to form the Canadian Federation of Film Societies (CFSS).
Located at the 5 Montmartre boulevard in Paris, it is to preserve and place at the disposal of its members all the cinematographic documents and productions existing.
In 1930 Jean Vigo founded the first film club in Nice, les Amis du Cinéma.
In 1948 André Bazin together with Jean-Charles Tacchella, Doniol-Valcroze, Astruc, Claude Mauriac, René Clément and Pierre Kast founded the avantgarde film society Objectif 49.
François Truffaut has depicted vividly Bazin's engagement in the ciné=club-movement: "During the first days of our friendship - it was about 1947 - I had the chance of accompanying him at his film presentations and observing him who he projected two short films of Chaplin - first in a Dominican monastery and two days later to the workers in a metal factory in their short break between their lunch and their return to their workbenches.
The first film clubs developed in Germany after 1945 upon the suggestion the British and French after the Second World War, in order to promote non-political strictly cultural exchange and democratic consciousness.
In the 1950s, the decade of the flowering of the film club movement, gave it a wave of reestablishments, also in the Soviet occupation zone and/or later German Democratic Republic.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130131092225/http://www.cinemaofmalayalam.net/malayalam_his_4.html Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation in Chennai has been conducting an annual international film festival, Chennai International Film Festival (CIFF) every year in December- http://www.chennaifilmfest.com, http://www.icaf.in, an annual event since 2003.
[10] The first filmclubs were founded at the end of the 1950s in Oslo and Narvik, and since then the film society movement has thrived both in the big cities, and in more rural areas of Norway.
Cine Club Monteávila The first film society was established in London in 1925 by a group of intellectuals and enthusiasts including Iris Barry, Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein, Adrian Brunel, Hugh Miller, Walter Mycroft, and Ivor Montagu, to show films which had been rejected on commercial grounds, most of them European, and films which had been rejected by the censor, most of them from the Soviet Union.
It counted among its sponsors George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and numerous members of the Bloomsbury Group.
[13][14][15] Its activities came to an end in 1939, though after the war the New London Film Society was something of a successor body.
In 2006, Filmclub was launched by Beeban Kidron and journalist Lindsay Mackie to improve schoolchildren's access to film.
[citation needed] "From 1946 until 1954, 'Art in Cinema' presented programs of independent film to large audiences at the San Francisco Museum of Art and at the University of California, Berkeley.
"[16] Inspired by film projections which Maya Deren had organized, Amos Vogel and his wife founded Cinema 16 in 1947.
