Sawston Cinema Archive Project

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 [...]

Local film-maker Peter Harmer has been working with the archive project team at our regular Thursday sessions to help us write and make a documentary about the history of the cinema.  Last week we interviewed local people about their memories of the cinema, and this week Peter showed us how to use our camera equipment [...]

Today we worked on website designs with Bill Thompson. We looked at existing websites to see which features we would like on our website. We then drew up some designs and presented these to the group. Some of the suggestions for the ‘about this site’ were: We are a group of students from Sawston Village [...]

An important part of the archive project is finding out what people who used the cinema remember about it, so we have been talking to people who live in Sawston. During our interview with Pearl we learnt that the cinema was always full and that it was very popular because there wasn’t much else to [...]