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Additions, changes and updates on the site since 1 January 2009
CH: Cultural highlights

Quotations: Woody Allen, David Attenborough, Lee De Forest, Alfred Hitchcock, Malcolm Muggeridge, Richard Nixon, New York Times, Shimon Peres, David Sarnoff, H G Wells (10 March)

Update to 1969 (1 February)

Update to 1941 (29 January)

Updates to 1975CH, 1998CH-2002CH, 2000, 2005, 2007 (25 January)

Update to 1915 (24 January)

New section: Radio statistics: international. New page: Netherlands: radio programme breakdown 1937-1959 (13 January)

Quotation: Frank Launder and Val Valentine (13 January)

Quotation: Tom Terriss (30 November)

Update to 1939 (26 November)

Updates to 1923 (20 November)

Updates to 1970 (19 November)

Updates to 2008 (5 November)

Updates to 1908, 1909, 1912, 1913 (2 November)

Updates to 2009 (11 September)

Updates to 2007 (2 September)

Updates to 2007, 2009 (14 August)

Updates to 1909, 1924, 1929 (23 July)

New pages: Three 'Brighton School' films: As Seen Through a Telescope, The Big Swallow and Grandma's Reading Glass13 July)

Quotation: George Black. Updates to 1982 Predictions (2 July)

Updates to 2008 (2 July)

Updates to 2009 (30 June)

Updates to 1962CH, 1964-1968, 1971CH, 1970-1975, 1977-1979, 1979CH, 1981, 1982, 1987 (29 June)

Updates to 1951, 1953 (28 June)

New page: Film registrations 1929-1934: The transition to sound (17 June)

Updates to 1955, 1958, 1983, 1989, 1994, 2003, 2004 (15 June)

New page: International media organisations. Updates to 1957, 1958, 1958CH, 1960 (11 June)

Updates to 1991, 1993, 1994 (28 May)

New page: Economics of the nickelodeon, UK commercial radio advertising spend 1934-1937. Updates to 1945, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1987-1990 (27 May)

New page: UK film import duty 1921-1925 (26 May)

New page: UK gramophone imports 1922-1924, UK film stock imports 1922-1924 (25 May)

New page: American remittances from UK cinemas 1940-1945. Quotations: Gilbert Seldes, G W Stonier. Additions or updates to 1977, 1989, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2004 (23 May)

Quotations: Frank O'Hara (20 May)

New page: The Battle of the Somme film. Additions or updates to 1938, 1957 (15 May)

New page: Film production cost breakdown 1937. Quotations: W K L Dickson, T S Eliot, Lima Daily News (Ohio), George Bernard Shaw, US War Department (30 April)

Additions or updates to 1895-1897, 1905 (25 April)

New page: Frequency of UK cinema visits 1947. Quotation: John Grierson (item 6). Additions or updates to 1908, 1909, 1944 and 1956 (22 April)

Quotations: Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Willie Owusu(19 April)

Quotations: Neil Gabler, Rick Lyman, Time magazine 1943, Time magazine 1970, Newsweek(12 April)

Additions or updates to 1989, 2004, 2006, 2009 (7 April)

Quotations: Ernest Betts, T C Elder, Robert Herring, C A Lejeune, Marcus Loew, Joseph Schenck. Additions or updates to 1992 (1 April)

Additions or updates to 1920, 2006 (31 March)

Additions or updates to 1908, 1909 (28 March)

New page: Brighton Film Studios. Quotations: Henri Langlois, Leo Tolstoy. Additions or updates to Brighton & Hove film chronology, 1903, 1907, 1911, 1914, 1968 (27 March)

Additions or updates to 1951, 1952 (22 March)

Additions or updates to 2004 (20 March)

Additions or updates to 1926 (18 March)

Most of the extended and updated section on film and cinema in Brighton & Hove is reinstated (17 March)

New pages: London Film Productions costs 1933-1936, UK new cinema openings 1927-1932. Additions or updates to UK cinema screens, 1932, 1937, 1938, 1946 (10 March)

Additions or updates to 1918, 1920, 1926, 1930, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1939 (9 March)

New page: Universal releases of British films in the US. Additions or updates to 1945, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1956-1959, 1966, 1979, 1986 (8 March)

Additions or updates to film-related commemorative plaques in Brighton & Hove, 1942, 1946, 1948, 2007 (7 March)

New pages: US audio player prices 1893-1901, Audio record prices 1894-1903, Gramophone Company (UK) profits 1901-1903, UK record production. Additions or updates to 1913, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1937, Bibliography (6 March)

Additions or updates to 2009 (23 February)

Additions or updates to 1929 (21 February)

Additions or updates to 1927, 1930, 1936, 1959, 1965, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1997, 2003 (19 February)

Quotations: Brendan Bracken, Documentary News Letter, The Times. Additions or updates to 1940-1943 (17 February)

Additions or updates to 1789, 1969 (15 February)

Additions or updates to 2001 (13 February)

New page: R W Paul patent application (1895). Additions or updates to 1895 (13 February)

Additions or updates to 2008 (2 February)

Quotation: Alice Guy-Blaché (30 January)

Additions or updates to 2009 (29 January)

New page: 2009 cultural highlights. Quotations: Leslie Howard, Sir Ian Jacob, Pilkington Committee. Additions or updates to Cinema-television chronology, 1938, 1939, 1943, 1946CH, 1950, 1952, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1983, 1999 (28 January)

Additions or updates to 1927, 1934, 1981 (24 January)

Additions or updates to 1951, 1963, 1966, 1998, 2008, 2008CH (15 January)

New page: film-related commemorative plaques in Brighton & Hove. Additions or updates to 1921, 2009 (14 January)

New page: G A Smith's patent for colour kinematography. Additions or updates to 1890, 1894, 1897 (12 January)

Additions or updates to Urban Spirograph (10 January)

Additions or updates to Film classification schemes, Video classification schemes, Films made in Brighton: Sound, 1932, 1997, 2006 (8 January)

Development of the section on Brighton & Hove. Additions or updates to 1895-1897, 1922-1923 (6 January)

Additions or updates to 2007, 2008 (4 January)