Author Archive for: ‘James Burns’
Cape Town Bioscope Culture and The Rose of Rhodesia
Abstract The Rose of Rhodesia may have premiered in Africa, but its audiences were neither primitive nor parochial. When the film opened in Cape Town on 23 March 1918, cinema had already established itself as the most popular leisure activity in Cape Town, where it had a large, diverse, and enthusiastic following. These audiences had not yet been divided, as they …
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