Technologies of Seeing the Past: The Curzon Memories App

Abstract

Working closely with the cinema to develop a locative or context-aware heritage application for the iPhone, the project aims to enhance the Curzon's new Heritage Lottery Funded exhibition, enabling visitors to gain further insight into the building, projection equipment and the history of cinema itself. The paper discusses the iterative design process, evaluates the first iteration and outlines plans for the next iteration, when the project will attempt to move seamlessly from the exterior of the building to inside the cinema. Mobile applications. Heritage interpretation. Screen heritage. Content development. Digital memories.

Bristol Fashion: Reclaiming Cary Grant for Bristol – Film Heritage, Screen Tourism and Curating the Cary Comes Home Festival

“…4 It was this interconnectedness between Grant's Bristol past, his future stardom, and the present existence of the theatre as it is today, that excited me about the idea of showing his films there once again and Cary Comes Home was born. I felt instinctively that bringing Grant's films back to the theatre where he began would create a unique and compelling experience for Grant fans, building on knowledge gained through user-testing my locative-media heritage apps, the Curzon Memories App (Crofts 2011(Crofts , 2012a(Crofts , 2012b and The Lost Cinemas of Castle Park (Crofts 2013b). Both apps were designed to be experienced 'on location', triggering context-sensitive content aimed to bring cinema history to life in the places where it actually happened.…”

Memories of cinemagoing and film experience: An introduction

“… 5. See, for instance, the Brno project’s website: https://www.phil.muni.cz/dedur/index.php?&;lang=1 (accessed 11 August 2016), reviewed in this issue; Italian Cinema Audiences : italiancinemaaudiences.org/ (accessed 2 August 2016); (Crofts, 2011); ‘New App Celebrates Curzon Cinema History’: http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/uwenews/news.aspx?id=2246 (accessed 17 August 2016). …”