{"title":"Hale's Tours in Singapore and Hong Kong.","authors":"Mario Slugan, Ata' Hanifee, Weijia Zeng","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2025.2501566","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17460654.2025.2501566","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since Raymond Fielding's essay on the subject, Hale's Tours and Scenes of the World - an exciting multi-sensory simulation of train travel involving wagon-like auditorium and moving image projection - have received noteworthy attention from early cinema scholars. Despite Hale's Tours being a worldwide phenomenon, however, the focus has been on North America and Western Europe. To our knowledge, there are only two properly referenced contributions on Hale's Tours (or its clones) outside these regions - in Singapore and Rio de Janeiro. Focusing on regions outside North America and Western Europe, however, is crucial for arriving at a more representative understanding of historical spectatorship and the affects the device produced. By drawing on English, Chinese, and Malay sources, this essay, therefore, expands our understanding of the Hale's Tours by investigating their first appearances in Asia in Singapore (1908) and Hong Kong (1912).</p>","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"23 1-2","pages":"144-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12333203/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144817852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Bombay to Singapore: Parsi theatre companies and early film exhibitions","authors":"Nadi Tofighian","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2025.2502827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2025.2502827","url":null,"abstract":"Many early film exhibitors and travelling showmen entered Southeast Asia through India in the 1890s and 1900s. This article examines the role of Indian entrepreneurs and theatre proprietors in arranging early film exhibitions in colonial Malaya, tracing their distribution routes, and analyzing the strategies they employed to engage local audiences. Focusing on three case studies - Khurshed Balivala and the Victoria Parsi Theatrical Company, Jamshedji Framji Madan and the Parsi Elphinstone Theatrical Company, and Abdulally Esoofally and his Bioscope exhibitions - the article explores the contributions of Parsi theatre troupes and Indian film exhibitors to the early film landscape in Singapore and colonial Malaya. By highlighting overlooked aspects of early cinema in the region, it demonstrates how formal and informal distribution networks were established and argues that film exhibitors from India played a significant role in shaping the reception and meaning of cinema for local audiences in colonial Malaya.","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147887367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Victorian idyll in art and literature: subject, ecology, form","authors":"Deborah Denenholz Morse","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2024.2400839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2024.2400839","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Early Popular Visual Culture (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Representing the past in the art of the long nineteenth century: historicism, postmodernism, and internationalism","authors":"Sarah Tharp","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2024.2386644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2024.2386644","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Early Popular Visual Culture (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142197721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sound, image, silence: art and the aural imagination in the Atlantic world","authors":"Kimberly Minor","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2024.2357923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2024.2357923","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Early Popular Visual Culture (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Was Sultan Abdülhamid II suspicious of the cinema? A study of cinema in the Hamidian era (1876–1908)","authors":"Enis Dinç, Mustafa Özen","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2024.2363176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2024.2363176","url":null,"abstract":"Due to Sultan Abdülhamid II’s authoritarian regime and his alleged suspicion of modern technologies, Turkish film historians have often viewed the Hamidian era as an obstacle to the development of ...","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Twelve Caesars: images of power from the ancient world to the modern","authors":"A. Maggie Hazard","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2024.2360284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2024.2360284","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Early Popular Visual Culture (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141257650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bryony Dixon, Laraine Porter, Neil Brand, Lawrence Napper
{"title":"The British Silent Film Festival and Symposium: an Overview","authors":"Bryony Dixon, Laraine Porter, Neil Brand, Lawrence Napper","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2024.2328458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2024.2328458","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Early Popular Visual Culture (Vol. 22, No. 1, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"121 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140198461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing Russian cinema: the production artist and the material environment in silent era film","authors":"Oksana Chefranova","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2024.2328396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2024.2328396","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Early Popular Visual Culture (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140172968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fulfilling his debt to civilization: American filmmaker Harold Marvin Shaw, British wartime propaganda, and the anti-Bolshevik The Land of Mystery, 1914–1920","authors":"Neil Parsons","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2024.2319891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2024.2319891","url":null,"abstract":"The Land of Mystery (1920) was a melodrama movie based on a fictionalized life of Vladimir Lenin, made by the American filmmaker Harold Marvin Shaw. Shaw had previously made drama films with wartim...","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140073276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}