‘File 16/63 Cinema Programmes’

Content

Cinema screening programmes and schedules for various organisations and institutions in Bahrain:

• cinema programmes for the Public Relations Office in the Persian Gulf’s cinema, dating from November 1944 until December 1946. The programmes are lists, indicating the date and time of screenings, venue and audience (for example: students, girl students, public, policemen). No details of the films shown are given;
• throughout the file, programmes of ‘movies’ scheduled to be shown at the BAPCO (Bahrain Petroleum Company) Club at Awali. The programmes indicate the date and time of screenings, film titles, principal actors, and film production companies. Most of the films are Hollywood productions, with a small number of British-made films also shown. Some films are preceded by newsreels and factual short films. Many film titles indicate subject matter that reflects the era in which they were produced (during and immediately after the Second World War), such as Laurel and Hardy’s Air Raid Wardens and a short screened in February 1946 entitled What to do with Germany ;
• a single programme, dated September 1946, for the station cinema at the Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Muharraq (f 49).

Interspersed with the programmes is a small amount of correspondence (from the BAPCO Club, the Naval Officer in Charge at Bahrain, RAF Bahrain) relating to cinema screenings and programmes.

Extent and format

1 file (100 folios)

Arrangement

The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 100-101) mirror the chronological arrangement.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 102; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-45; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/R/15/2/1575

Former external reference(s)

English Office: File 16/63

History of this record

Date(s)

6 Nov 1944-21 Aug 1948 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

CinemaPropagandaTimetables

People & organisations

Public Relations Officer, Persian Gulf, BahrainBAPCO Club, Awali Camp

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