Sawston Cinema Archive Project

Our film, Projecting the Past, is being screened tonight to an invited audience and we are getting everything ready to show all the work we’ve done.

There will be a full report tomorrow, and we hope to be on BBC Look East soon too.  But here’s the cinema looking at its best…

The first screening of ‘Projecting the Past’ is only two weeks away, and our first public screening is just a few days later, so the team at the Cinema Archive Project is working hard to finish the film and get it ready to show. But there’s a lot of other stuff going on too, including a fabulous collage of the project to go on the wall, presentation materials, trailers and even slideshows to show how hard we’ve all worked over the months.

John managed to interview some of us during this week’s project session.

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Projecting the Past will be shown for the first time at a special preview event at Sawston Cinema on July 2nd. The first public screening will be on July 7th – we hope you will come along.

Projecting the Past: Trailer by Sven Mattes

On Thursday April 29th we got to see the film we’ve been making with Pete Harmer for the first time, and it was fabulous. A lot of the Sawston residents whose memories feature in the film were in the audience, and it was great to hear them muttering ‘oh yes, I remember that…’ during the screening and to hear Tom’s excellent music score for the first time.

The big launch is on July 2nd, and there will be a public screening on July 7th.

Tonight  Sawston Film Club is  showing The Duchess at the cinema,but we thought it would be interesting to show you what was being screened fifty years ago, in December 1958. Here’s the programme, kindly shared with us:

We’ll be putting more programmes and other material up in the Cinema History section of the site.