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In 1940 Thelma Gutsche submitted her thesis on South African cinema history to her advisor E.G. Malherbe at the University of Cape Town. In his comments on her draft Malherbe mused ‘I could not help wondering, as I read these chapters, what the progress of film entertainment was like in the other young, pioneer countries’ of the empire. He also asked Gutsche if she planned on making a study of ‘films as a means of entertainment (or education) for Natives’?1 Gutsche’s published manuscript devoted little attention to either of these questions. And in the generation following the war, as the empire rapidly disintegrated, no other scholars expressed any interest in exploring them either.
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Burns, J. (2013). Conclusion. In: Cinema and Society in the British Empire, 1895–1940. Britain and the World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137308023_6
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