WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Thursday, 28 Sept 2023

09:15–09:45
Introduction:
Maria Fritsche & Lars Martin Sørensen

09:45–10:45
Keynote and Discussion:
Roel Vande Winkel, KU Leuven CINEMA IN OCCUPIED BELGIUM. Working with databases to gain new insights into cinemas and film screenings in German-occupied Belgium (1940–1944)

10:45–11:00
Coffee break

11:00–12:15
Session 1

Julie K. Allen, Brigham Young University-Provo, Utah, The Danish Cinema License System in the 1920s to 1940s: Merit Reward or Political Cudgel?

Thomas Hagen, ARKIVET Kristiansand, Prevalence rather than popularity? A case study of wartime film programming in one medium-sized city and a nearby village in Southern Norway

12:15–13:15
Lunch

13:15–14.15
Keynote and Discussion:
Prof. Pelle Snickars, Lund University, Doing New Film History—On Computer Vision & Topic Models of Swedish Film Culture in the 1930s

5 minutes break

14:20–15:35
Session 2

Ian Goode, The utility of propaganda: mobile film shows in the rural communities of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (1940–1950)

Maria Fritsche, Entertaining the Wehrmacht. German military cinemas in Norway during WWII

15:35–16:00
Coffee break

16:00–17:30
Session 3

Kimmo Laine & Aymeric Pantet, University of Turku, Film distribution in WWII Finland (part I): Import and distribution

Tommi Römpötti & Noora Kallioniemi, University of Turku, Film distribution in WWII Finland (part II): Exhibition and programming

Friday, 29 Sept 2023

09:15–10:30
Session 4

Øivind Hanche, National Library of Norway, German film distribution in Norway during WWII

Isak Thorsen, University of Southern Denmark, US films in Danish cinemas in the post WWII years

10:30–10:45
Coffee break

10:45–11:45
Keynote and Discussion:

Thunnis van Oort, Radboud University, Using film programming datasets for writing histories of moviegoing: Data collection, analysis and dissemination

11:45–12:45
Lunch

13:00–17:00
Cinema data analysis workshop under guidance of Thunnis van Oort: Film exhibition and distribution across Scandinavia during WWII