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Our next Attraction - New Look Website

Behind the scenes, work is progressing to bring you a new website for the BCTV, which will include new features such as a members' area and online membership renewals. All being well, it is all change this July. Watch this space!

 

As this new look website is for and by Association members, please don't hesitate to send any news, photographs (old & new) as well as any future events which will be of interest to members, by contacting your webmaster here or using the contact form.

New BCTV Member Events Announced

Head to our Future Events page to see details of spring and summer trips to The Museum of Brands and the Musical Museum

How to (Re)Open a Cinema Podcast

BCTV member (and your webmaster) Cliff Baillie hosts a podcast along with Kyle MacFarlane (Project Development Officer) for the Friends of Broadway Prestwick. A community group dedicated to raising from ruin a cinema that has not shown a film in nearly 50 years, namely, the Broadway Cinema in Prestwick, Scotland, an art deco cinema from the 1930s.

 

Topics deal with the history and heritage of this cinema and the industry in general, as well as the trials and tribulations of receiving funding for this charity project as well as going off on tangents about projection and other related topics.

 

At the time of writing, there are eleven episodes (with a new one every few weeks) and can be found wherever you listen to podcasts or here:

Apple   Spotify  Amazon  Acast

Association Accounts

Click on either of the above pages for a bigger version.

A copy can also be found in the summer 2024 edition

of The Veteran

Time to renew your membership

It is that time of the year and membership renewals are now due. Renewal forms and details can be found on this link

 

IMPORTANT CHANGE TO MEMBERSHIP QUALIFICATIONS

 

At the Annual General Meeting on 20th June 2023 members approved a special resolution to lower the qualifying period for membership from 30 to 25 years. 

 

The change had been recommended by the Executive Committee for two reasons.  First, the change in employment and work pattens in the cinema, television and film industries make it increasingly difficult or even impossible for people to achieve 30 years of service.  Second, the need to increase membership numbers to compensate for the loss of members either through age, the pandemic or postal disruption. 
 

The change is effectively immediately so if you have colleagues, former colleagues or friends who satisfy the new 25 year requirement please tell them about the change and encourage them to join the association.

 

In the 100 years since the association came into being, the criteria for membership have been amended several times to reflect industry changes.

How to become a member

 

Website Statstics are on the Move!

If you enjoy reading the monthly website statistics, the reports have now moved to its own page under "About Us"

 

The Veteran - Back Copies from the 70's

We are attempting to make sure that our Archive contains every single copy of our magazine the Veteran, from its inception.

There are 9 missing copies, all from the 1970's, if you have issue numbers 1 through to 6 or 9, 11,12 do please consider donating them to our Archive, we would be most grateful.