Comparison of 1914 Film Listings in Newspapers in Three Cities: Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal

This SSHRC funded project (Council Grant number 430-2011-006) set out as its goal to advance our knowledge of the character of film exhibition in the early part of the 20th century in Vancouver, with a specific focus on 1914 as a case study. The following dataset is the third of three surrounding 1914 exhibition history in Vancouver. The first dataset in the "Screens in Vancouver: Cinemagoing and the City in 1914" collection in cIRcle is a record of film listings for Vancouver by cinema and newspaper for each month of 1914. The second dataset compared Vancouver’s film exhibition with Seattle and Winnipeg to see what percentage of overlap in films occurred, and whether empirically proven statements could be made about the distribution of films in 1914. The main conclusion is that very few films overlapped, and thus the cinematic experience in 1914 was largely unique to each city. The following third dataset is a record of the comparison across Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. A legend for abbreviated cinema names in the three cities is also included. The majority of the theatre data was compiled by UBC MA Film Studies graduate Chelsea Birks, with work earlier compiled by Dr. Peter Lester. This study, though it does not claim to be comprehensive, particularly in relation to Toronto, confirms the conclusion from the second data set, which is that very few films overlapped, and thus the cinematic experience in 1914 was largely unique to each city.加拿大社会科学与人文研究理事会（Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, SSHRC）资助的本项目（资助编号：430-2011-006），核心目标为深化对20世纪早期温哥华电影放映业态特征的认知，并以1914年为具体案例展开研究。本数据集为围绕温哥华1914年电影放映史构建的三份数据集之三。在cIRcle平台的《温哥华银幕：1914年的观影活动与城市》数据集集合中，第一份数据集记录了1914年各月温哥华各影院的电影排片与报纸刊载的影讯信息。第二份数据集将温哥华的电影放映业态与西雅图、温尼伯进行对比，旨在统计三地电影放映的影片重合率，并验证1914年电影放映分布相关结论的实证有效性。其核心结论为：三地重合放映的影片极少，因此1914年各地的观影体验在很大程度上具有独特性。本第三份数据集则记录了温哥华、多伦多与蒙特利尔三地的放映情况对比数据，同时附带了三地影院简称的对照表。本次数据集的影院数据主要由不列颠哥伦比亚大学（University of British Columbia, UBC）电影研究硕士毕业生切尔西·伯克斯（Chelsea Birks）整理，早期相关工作由彼得·莱斯特博士完成。尽管本研究（尤其是针对多伦多的部分）并未宣称具备全面性，但它再次验证了第二份数据集的结论：三地重合放映的影片极少，1914年各地的观影体验在很大程度上具有独特性。