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Birmingham to see Revival of Co-op Film Tradition
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AS A child raised on Saturday morning club at my local fleapit, I have always had a love for cinema. A medium that, by just turning down the lights, can silence hundreds of children does it for me.
As a co-operator it is heartening that there is a very long relationship between the movement and cinema. Back in 1914 in a rallying call the Co-operative News asked: “The cinema: should it be used for co-operative purposes?”
Seeing that cinema had the means of “attracting the masses — young and old — in a way that would enable them to obtain knowledge, and at the same time be vastly entertained.”
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