Original air date: 23 September 2015 | The production of motion pictures began in the 1890s, and before long, films were being screened throughout the world, including in Ottoman cities. How did Ottoman audiences receive the advent of film? What was the role of the state in promoting or limiting the spread of motion pictures? What were the contents of the earliest films shown and produced in the Ottoman Empire? In this episode, Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen offers an introduction to the emergence of cinema in the Ottoman Empire and discusses the results of her research on the subject at the Ottoman archives in Istanbul.

Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen is a doctoral candidate in the Centre for Multidisciplinary & Intercultural Inquiry at University College London researching the history of cinema in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/09/cinema-ottoman-empire-turkey.html

Episode No. 201
Release date: 23 September 2015
Location: Feriköy, Istanbul
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Music and sound excerpts: Mısır Çarşısı (Chris Gratien); Rüçhan Çamay & Dün Bügün ve Yarın - Televizyon; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer
Bibliography courtesy of Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen
Image by Ressam Salih (1943)

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