This paper reports on the “Digital Film Listings” (DIGIFIL) project, which aimed at automatically extracting, digitizing and publishing film screening data from the weekly Filmladders (or films listings) as published in historical newspapers. The screenings constitute the focal point of film culture: they are the place where distributors, exhibitors and audiences meet. Collecting information about these encounters, and embedding them in their wider discursive context, yields an invaluable resource for linguists, socio-economic historians and media scholars to study the ways in which cinema-going contributed to the formation of modern societies.

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