The history and social significance of motion pictures in South Africa, 1895-1940

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dc.contributor.authorGutsche, Thelmaen_ZA
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dc.date.issued1946en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe nineteenth century culminated in a wealth of scientific inventiveness which resulted in a complete and fundamental change in social life within the following fifty years. The more widespread use of telegraphy, the expansion of the telephone service, the increased application of electricity and the invention of the motor car, the sudden appearance and phenomenal development of the cinema, and finally the invention and speedy public utilisation of the aeroplane and the wireless have combined to obliterate (except in trivial instances such as its "naughtiness") appreciation of the atmosphere of the period in which motion pictures first appeared. In South Africa, a remarkable degree of self-reliance was practiced by the populations of comparatively isolated towns during the nineties. Despite the slowness of communication, the laboriousness of travel and the leisurely tempo of life in general, despite every adverse circumstance, people construed out or their immediate surroundings a cultural life far more enterprising than that produced by favourable modern conditions.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationGutsche, T. (1946). <i>The history and social significance of motion pictures in South Africa, 1895-1940</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21172en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationGutsche, Thelma. <i>"The history and social significance of motion pictures in South Africa, 1895-1940."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies, 1946. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21172en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationGutsche, T. 1946. The history and social significance of motion pictures in South Africa, 1895-1940. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Gutsche, Thelma AB - The nineteenth century culminated in a wealth of scientific inventiveness which resulted in a complete and fundamental change in social life within the following fifty years. The more widespread use of telegraphy, the expansion of the telephone service, the increased application of electricity and the invention of the motor car, the sudden appearance and phenomenal development of the cinema, and finally the invention and speedy public utilisation of the aeroplane and the wireless have combined to obliterate (except in trivial instances such as its "naughtiness") appreciation of the atmosphere of the period in which motion pictures first appeared. In South Africa, a remarkable degree of self-reliance was practiced by the populations of comparatively isolated towns during the nineties. Despite the slowness of communication, the laboriousness of travel and the leisurely tempo of life in general, despite every adverse circumstance, people construed out or their immediate surroundings a cultural life far more enterprising than that produced by favourable modern conditions. DA - 1946 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1946 T1 - The history and social significance of motion pictures in South Africa, 1895-1940 TI - The history and social significance of motion pictures in South Africa, 1895-1940 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21172 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationGutsche T. The history and social significance of motion pictures in South Africa, 1895-1940. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies, 1946 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21172en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Political Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherPolitical Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleThe history and social significance of motion pictures in South Africa, 1895-1940en_ZA
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