Sawston Cinema Archive Project

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

As part of our work on the archive project we have been researching the history of the cinema in Sawston. We found a web page that has a lot of information – you can read it here – and it says
The tradition of the benevolent employer was continued in the 20th century by H. G. [...]

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 College.  We [...]