Ideal Sound Cinemagazine

Dates

1931 - 1932

Category

Cinemagazine - Entertainment

History

Ideal embraced sound production in August 1931, producing the weekly Ideal Sound Cinemagazine with Sound on Film technology, provided by Peerless Pictures Ltd. In July of that year, they boasted that it was already booked in 550 theatres according to the Bioscope on 15 July 1931, p.6-7. It was also around this time that Ideal began to advertise that Andrew Buchanan edited the series (although he had, in fact, been editor from the beginning). In 1932, Buchanan moved production to Gainsborough Studios, presumably to facilitate sound recording to a greater degree. At this point they also changed their slogan to ‘Cinemagazine - the "Punch" of the Screen’ - like other cinemagazines, drawing a direct comparison with print media. The last issue that we have record of is BATH OF A NATION no. 297, released on 9 May 1932.

Full history

http://media.bufvc.ac.uk/newsonscreen2/newsreel/histories/idealcinemaghistory.pdf

Provenance

This database is an attempt to reconstruct the output of Ideal Cinemagazine from details published in contemporary trade journals, particularly the KinematographWeekly and The Bioscope.

Other Information

See also Ideal Cinemagazine.

Films in this series can be obtained from:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries: nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk For commercial/footage reuse enquiries: footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN

Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

Series held

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