| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Cleveland Cinema Club |
| Title: | Cleveland Cinema Club Records |
| Dates: | 1927-1968 |
| Extent: | 1.20 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize volume) |
| Abstract: | The Cleveland Cinema Club was founded in 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, to study motion pictures and their effects on society. The club rated films, monitored legislation, and helped organize film appreciation groups. The collection consists of membership applications, minutes, financial records, an attendance register, correspondence, a publicity scrapbook, miscellaneous printed matter, and plans for motion picture festivals in 1938 and 1939. |
| MS Number | MS 3551 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
The Cleveland Cinema Club was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1917 to raise the moral and artistic standards of the motion picture industry in the United States. The first organization of its kind in the United States, it grew out of the "better films" movement. Each year, the organization created a list of suitable films to be shown to school children during lunch time, and it created a film festival in 1938. Active until 1968, the group also published a bulletin that rated current films.
The Cleveland Cinema Club Records, ca. 1927-1968 and undated, consist of membership applications, minutes, financial records, an attendance register, correspondence, a publicity scrapbook, miscellaneous printed matter, and plans for motion picture festivals in 1938 and 1939.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of Cleveland, Ohio, and societal attitudes toward the film industry in the 1930s-1960s.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 3551 Cleveland Cinema Club Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Cinema Club Records ca. 1927-1968 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence 1930-1964 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Printed items dates vary | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Lists of officers, members, and addresses dates vary | |||||||||
| 1 | 4-5 | Membership applications dates vary | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Financial records 1933-1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Newspaper clippings dates vary | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Motion Picture Festival Week 1938-1939 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Motion picture information ca. 1937-1938 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Library of Congress copyright registration 1941 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs, Communication Department 1952-1953 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Miscellaneous items ca. 1931-1968 undated | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Minutes 1933-1936 | |||||||||
| 2 | 2 | Minutes 1957-1967 | |||||||||
| Box | Volume | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | Minutes 1936-1944 | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Executive board minutes 1936-1949 | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Minutes 1945-1956 | |||||||||
| 3 | 4 | Financial records 1940-1949 | |||||||||
| 3 | 5 | Register of club members ?-1951 | |||||||||
| Volume | |||||||||||
| 1 | Oversize Volume 1: scrapbook ca. 1927-1968 | ||||||||||