1. On Location: Geo-mapping Bristol City Centre Cinemas in The Lost Cinemas of Castle Park App Dr Charlotte Crofts (Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE, Bristol) Charlotte.Crofts@uwe.ac.uk Twitter: @charlottecrofts

2. Lost Cinemas of Castle Park App GPS triggers content in Auto mode Manual mode, tap points to get content Link to Whats on in Bristol Cinemas Ability to Tweet from within the app Ambient cinema music as you walk round only available in-situ Name, date of cinema Single image for each cinema Simple play/pause/stop interface Emphasis on audio Cinema footprints indicated location Narration, dramatisation, reenactment, limited oral history 3. Castle Park, then and now 2012 Ordinance Survey Map 1900s Map Maps from Bristol City Councils interactive GIS map, Know Your Place 4. Lost Cinemas of Castle Park App 5. Lost Cinemas of Castle Park The Tivoli (built 1874-1956, 1st moving pictures 1896-1890, cinema 1912-16) The Bio-Pictureland /Counterslip Chapel (built 1810, cinema 1908- 1918) The Gem (built 1908, cinema 1909-1932) The Queens Picture House (1910- 1933) The Dolphin (1910-1922) The Olympia, later The Tatler (1910-1963) The Kings Hall (1910-1976) The Castle Street Theatre (1911- 1926) The Clare Street Picture House (1911-1927) The Peoples Palace / Gaumont (1892-present, cinema 1912-1980) The Regent (1928-1940) The Empire Theatre (1893-1963, cinema 1931-9) The Bristol Hippodrome (1912- present, cinema 1932-38) The News Theatre (1933-1956) The Odeon (1938-present) The Europa (1973-1987) The Watershed (1982-present) 6. Bristol Cinemas, 1896-present* Height of cinema-going 1938, 40 cinemas 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 1897 1899 1901 1903 1905 1907 1909 1911 1913 1915 1917 1919 1921 1923 1925 1927 1929 1931 1933 1935 1937 1939 1941 1943 1945 1947 1949 1951 1953 1955 1957 1959 1961 1963 1965 1967 1969 1971 1973 1975 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 Number of Cinemas in Bristol *Total of c70 cinemas in lifetime of the city 7. Lost Cinemas of Castle Park 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 1896 1899 1902 1905 1908 1911 1914 1917 1920 1923 1926 1929 1932 1935 1938 1941 1944 1947 1950 1953 1956 1959 1962 1965 1968 1971 1974 1978 1981 1984 1987 1990 1993 1996 1999 2002 2005 2008 2011 NumberofCinemas Year Watershed 1982- Tivoli, 1896-1900, 1912-1916 Tatler, Olympia 1910-63 Regent 1928-40 Queen's Picture Hall 1910-33 People's Palace, Gaumont Baldwin St 1896, 1912- 1980 Odeon, Unionn St 1938- News Theatre 1933-56 King's Hall 1911-76 Gem 1909-32 Europa 1973-87 Empire Theatre 1931-39 Dolphin 1910-1922 Clare Street Picture House 1911-27 Castle Street 1911-26 Bristol Hippodrome 1932-38 Bio Pictureland 1908-14 8. Pre Cinematograph Act 1909 9. First purpose built cinemas 10. Clare Street Picture House 11. Theatre conversions 12. Super Cinemas 13. The Regent 14. Impact of WW2 Castle Street obliterated by blitz, including the loss of The Regent News Cinema hangs on until 1950s Odeon survives bombing, still operatiing Aspirations for redevelopment of the bombsite into civic centre never realised New shopping area, Broadmead, developed to sate national shopping chains 1970s turned into a park 15. The Age of the Car: Old Market, then and now Cinema footprints" overlaid onto 1949 Map Today, cut off by underpass Kings Tatler Empire 16. Tatler, Old Market 1910-1963 (nee The Olympia) Prehistoric Women (1950) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042855/ De Mujer a Mujer / From Woman to Woman (1950) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042385/ 17. Tatler, demolished 1963 My Bare Lady (aka Seven Little Bares) (1963) was the last film screened http://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/My_Bare_Lady_(film) 18. Temple Way Underpass, c1968 19. Kings in decline; ceased operating in 1976, demolished 1982 Adult fare: Hot Dreams and Man Hungry 20. Findings Aural dimension helps bring lost cinemas to life Emphasis on audio allows real location to be the screen Dialectical montage / frisson between physical location, media content and user interface. Temporal / spatial oscillation between here/there, now/then, location/imagination 21. Magic Moments Listening to history of the cinemas whilst standing near where they used to be is effective (and sometimes affective) Sweet spot when the app interacts with location, anticipating what the user is likely to see / hear (Reid, J., Hull, R., Cater, K., Fleuriot, C. (2005),Magic Moments in Situated Mediascapes in ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology). 22. Armchair mode Arm chair mode needs to be equally compelling, but also need to have added value of being there 23. So/Lo/Mo Location-based Engagement Call to action vs lost impulse Whats On button; ability to comment / add archive and memories Twitter feed 24. App Launch 25. Encounters Film Festival insert 26. Caveats Uptake need to encourage users to experience in-situ Scalability (Android 50mb, iPhone 150mb limit) need to use The Cloud to draw data on the fly (City Strata project) Sustainability upgrade culture (Twitter API) Accessibility platform dependent HTML5 / mobile web the way forward? 27. Dr Charlotte Crofts charlotte.crofts@uwe.ac.uk http://www.dcrc.org.uk/people/charlotte-crofts/ @charlottecrofts 28. CARY GRANT COMES HOME FOR THE WEEKEND 11-12 OCTOBER, BRISTOLCary Grant is cited as the best and most important actor in the history of cinema by David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film), who will be speaking on his journey from Bristol-born Archie Leach to pan-Atlantic gentleman. Festival Gala double screening at The Bristol Hippodrome, the very theatre where young Archie worked as a lad and was inspired to become an actor tickets available now! Confirmed speakers also include Mark Glancy (Queen Mary), Kathrina Gltire (UWE) and Andrew Spicer (UWE).