Adana Sinemalarının Haritalanması: Yeni/Yerel Sinema Tarihi Çalışmalarında Çoklu Yöntemlerin ve Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemlerinin Kullanımı

Adana was transformed into an industrial city in the early 1900’s by its economy dependent on cotton production. The social and cultural field of the city by its central role on mobility was as dynamic as its economy throughout that era. Halls and open-air cinema venues were at the centre of the social and cultural life especially in the 1960–1980 period. There were almost 110 cinema venues in the city during this time. However just as the collapse in the local economy, the financial structure of the film industry in Adana region had been weakened and a fall had begun by the late 1970’s. In the following years with the transformation of the urban space, cinema venues became obsolete. Apart from the cinema complexes that survive today, there left only ruins of more than a hundred cinema venues. The loss of movie theaters to this extent compels a loss in the memory of the city. The aim of this study is to search for the locations of cinema venues that had operated in Adana since the early 1900’s and to map these through the geographical information system. Geographical location data of almost 125 cinema venues starting from 1900 compiled from the local film bulletins and newspapers, archives, and by the oral history gathered especially from the employees of the cinema venues, and the neighbourhood witnesses, and by a Datathon workshop. Consequently, this data is transferred into a digital map through the ArcGIS Desktop geographic information system, thus a digital map for new inquiries is exported.