A complete run of the 14 numbers of 'Cinema Studies The Journal of the Society for Film History Research'.

[8] + 344 + [7]pp., 12mo, and four pages of plates (vol.2, no.2). Fourteen issues, loose, with volume 1 (issues 1-9) continuously paginated to 244; and volume 2 (issues 1-5) paginated to 90; with the volume's separate prelims (8pp.) and index (7pp.) ready for binding up. Two identical fliers for the society (giving its 'Purpose') loosely inserted. The collection is in good condition, on lightly aged and worn paper, but with rusted staples to all volumes. Hunnings and Gillett are named as editors of the first four volumes, thereafter Hunnings alone. The editorial to the first issue begins by explaining the background: 'The Society for Film History Research was founded in January 1959, on the initiative of Ernest Lindgren, Curator of the National Film Archive, stimulated by the Federation Internationale des Archives du Film and its Bureau International de Recherche Historique Cinematographique. So far as we know, apart from the research group formed in the Netherlands and described in this issue, we are the only organisation concerned with historical research into the cinema in all its aspects, as opposed to the collection and perservation of material which is the function of the film archive.' Contributors include Sidney Birt Acres, Dave Aylott, Kein Carroll, Brian W. Coe, Jan De Vaal, Derek Eastaway, Bent Grasten, Hermann Hecht, Tom Milne, John Minchinton, Liam O'Laoghaire, Barrie Pattison, Anthony Slide, Audrey Wadowska, Rune Waldekranz, Eric Walter White. Topics range from 'Film Censorship in India' and 'Early Film Criticism in Leicester' to 'Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Raquel Meller, William Morton, Viking Eggeling, William Haggar, and Herbert Ponting.