Biography of 'Edinburgh Cine and Video Society (ECVS)'

Amateur Cine and Video Society

ECVS was founded in 1936 as the Waverley Cine Society. Within a year the new club had acquired premises at 23 Fettes Row, in Edinburgh’s New Town. On moving into what was to become a permanent home, the club changed its name to Edinburgh Cine Society.

The basement properties were rented out as a contribution to covering the mortgage costs, and the Society developed the ground floor of the premises for their use. There was a cinema, lounge, kitchen, a studio space and darkroom for film processing. The war naturally inhibited much of the film making activity with many of the male members in the Services and a shortage of film stock for the amateur. The ladies kept the Society going, organising fund-raising events to help with the mortgage payments. Post-war the Society enjoyed a resurgence, with refurbishment of the club rooms and regular meetings on Friday nights and film-making in groups at the weekends.

In the 1950’s the old bus seats in the cinema were replaced with stock from a local cinema that was closing, creating a 78 seat auditorium with a separate projection box.

The club flourished in the twenty years after the war, reaching its maximum permitted membership of 150 with a waiting list.

The club rooms were in premises designated as a listed building and major renovation works were required in the early 1970’s. The completion of those works, assisted by grants from the Edinburgh Conservation Committee was marked by a visit from the Queen Mother Patron of the Conservation Committee who unveiled a plaque on the wall of the building and enjoyed a tour of the club rooms. Like many earlier episodes in the Society’s history this was recorded on film. With a reduced membership, and a need to fund the share of the building works the ground floor was sold off and the club moved into the basement, no. 23A, creating a smaller 52 seat cinema.

In the 1980’s came videotape, formally adopted by the Society in 1990 when it was resolved to admit as members those who professed to be videographers. The name of the organisation was changed to reflect this - Edinburgh Cine and Video Society. Thursday nights became video nights whilst retaining the traditional Friday evenings for the main club activities. The new section of the club benefited from a donation from a local company of two Sony cameras and two U-matic recorders. Video projection equipment was installed at a later date.

[Extracted from article by Norman Speirs in ECVS Journal Cine Chat, Issue 29, October 1996.]

Researcher: Norman Speirs

Films associated with 'COCOZZA, Enrico'

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	ORDER OF THE BOOT, the [5869] Add to my films A photographer is thwarted in his photo-taking by an elderly woman.		1955 silent bw
	OULTON PARK 64 [6559] Add to my films Amateur general views Oulton Park car racing site near Cheshire. General views race, people and site.		1964 silent bw
	OUT OF THE RACE [6446] Add to my films The Scott family live comfortably, but struggle to control their troubled son's behaviour.	Onsite only	1983 sound col
	OUTING [6552] Add to my films Amateur general views outing to countryside. Picnic and dancing.		1950 silent bw
	OUTING EARLY 1950's / MRS MASON WANTS TO KNOW [6468] Add to my films Two different films spliced together. One outing to the beach in the 195o's, one comedy film (no titles/credits as abandoned production due to war).		1952 silent bw
	OVERLAND TOUR [5879] Add to my films Holiday film of "Overland Tours" bus journey through Switzerland.		1959 silent col
	PARACHUTIST [6541] Add to my films Amateur general views of parchutist, bi-plane, pilot.		1935 silent bw
	PENGUINS [6533] Add to my films Amateur general views of penguins at feeding time at the zoo [probably Edinburgh Zoo].	Onsite only	1930 silent bw
	PERSIL ADVERT [6432] Add to my films Amateur comedy film in which a woman using Persil powder washes the stripes off a shirt. Intended as a 'send up' of conventional washing powder adverts.		1975 sound col
	PICNIC [6615] Add to my films Amateur film family camping, on beach.		1959 silent col
	PICNIC 1978 [6421] Add to my films Summer outing to Gifford 1978. Clubs (Edinburgh Cine Society) picnic to Gifford.		1978 silent col
	PILLS FOR ALL ILLS [5874] Add to my films A salesman selling energy pills has no luck and two elderly gentlemen have a mix-up over a cut hand and a bloody bandage.	Onsite only	1956 silent col
	POLES APART [6602] Add to my films Amateur comedy about the difficulties a family have in erecting a tent. Specifically, confusion over multiple poles...	Onsite only	1979 sound col
	PONIES [6531] Add to my films Amateur footage of people on a beach and an older woman on a walk in the countryside.	Onsite only	1930 silent bw
	PORTFOLIO TO TROUBLE [6444] Add to my films Amateur fiction morality tale following a young man trying to find a place at Art School, despite having few qualifications. Refused admittance to College, he decides to travel to Paris- but failing to find a job, he turns to crime to pay his passage.		1981 sound col
	PORTOBELLO, LEITH, QUEENSFERRY CORALS, CRAB CRAMOND [6534] Add to my films Amateur general views Portobello beach, children, boats. Also Leith, Queensferry, Cramond.		1935 silent bw
	PORTUGAL AND SANTIAGO '89 [6464] Add to my films Amateur general views of Portugal and Santiago de Compostella in Spain, featuring architecture and street scenes.		1989 sound col
	PREFACE: A Short Story [5851] Add to my films A dramatic account of a man's affair and his relationship with his wife who has alcoholism.		1966 sound bw
	PRESIDENTS PICNIC better known as ONE MAN AND HIS GROG, the [6417] Add to my films Man walking with dog in countryside. He has a drink from an unidentified bottle before becoming tipsy and using a divining rod to locate a loch. Several people take a short trip in a rowing boat.		1968 sound col
	PROVENCE 79 [6465] Add to my films Amateur general views of a holiday in Provence, featuring its street scenes, landscapes and people.		1977 silent col
	PSYCHO [6416] Add to my films Amateur comedy about an obviously incapable psychiatrist and the various strange patients he meets in the course of a days work. The psychiatrist ends up on the couch himself.		1968 silent bw
	Q - UNICA MEETING [6279] Add to my films Apparant trim footage of UNICA meeting in Glasgow, August 1951. Various scenes, no discernable order.		1951 silent bwcol
	RACE MEETING AT MUSSELBURGH [6540] Add to my films General views race meeting in Musselburgh, jockeys, horses and punters.		1938 silent bw
	RACING AT BECKETTS AND SILVERSTONE [6568] Add to my films Mixed shots of car races and spectators [racing at Silverstone and Becketts].		1958 silent bw
	RANDOM REFLECTIONS ON PRINCES STREET [6593] Add to my films Amateur film, views of Edinburgh and various landmarks that can be seen fro reflections in shop windows along Princes street.	Onsite only	1966 sound col
	REEL SUCCESS [6430] Add to my films Amateur film about a young man who joins the Edinburgh Cine Society to improve his film-making skills, which he achieves with prizewinning success.		1974 sound col
	REVIEW OF THE YEAR 1939, a [6630] Add to my films Newsreel for main events in 1939, footage plus frequent intertitles.	Onsite only	1939 silent bw
	RIDDLE OF RODONO [6413] Add to my films Imaginative amateur science fiction film about an unexplained 'force' affecting a couple of middle aged people walking by the lochside.		1972 sound col
	RIVER SCENE [6428] Add to my films General views river scenes, swans, duck ,boats and a mill wheel in action.		1972 sound col
	ROAD HEATING - THE MOUND [5854] Add to my films The laying of heating cable below the road surface of the Mound in Edinburgh, and the official opening ceremony.	Onsite only	1948 silent bw
	ROMA, ITALY [6485] Add to my films Brief amateur general views of Rome,1957.		1956 silent bw
	ROME [5870] Add to my films Holiday film showing some of the famous sights in Rome: the Coliseum, the Arch of Constantine, the Roman Forum and the Trevi Fountain.		1950 silent col
	ROYAL COMMONWEALTH POOL, the [6667] Add to my films Chronological documentary over two years of the construction of the Royal Commonwealth pool in Edinburgh, from a greenfield site.	Onsite only	1967 silent col
	ROYAL VISIT - JUNE 1953 [6282] Add to my films Royal visit to Edinburgh, streets, castle and Murrayfield in 1953. Various ceremonies and processions in different locations.	Onsite only	1953 silent col
	RURAL INTERLUDE 1959 [6500] Add to my films A family holiday to the countryside. Focus on children.	Onsite only	1959 silent bw
	RUSSIA [6478] Add to my films Amateur general views street scenes Leningrad and holiday resort Sochi, in Russia.		1971 silent col
	RUSSIAN [6451] Add to my films Amateur footage of a holiday in Russia. Tracking shot from ferry and general views ornate golden fountain.		1971 silent col
	SCENES IN EDINBURGH [5858] Add to my films Family film covers diverse topics including football match at Hampden, the family cat, winter scenes in Blackford Park in Edinburgh, beach scenes at North Berwick and the Edinburgh Tattoo.		1954 silent col
	SCOTLAND OUR HERITAGE [5873] Add to my films Miscellany of shots and sequences in Scotland, some identifiable with a title or a roadsign, others recognisable only by sight. Ranging from Perthshire to Ullapool and the Kyles of Bute.		1950 silent col
	SCOTTISH TOUR [5878] Add to my films Sights in Scotland including Iona, North Berwick, Edinburgh, Speanbridge and Loch Fyne.		1954 silent col
	SEVEN AGES [6278] Add to my films Humorous amateur fiction tale covering the seven ages of man from the cradle to the grave.	Onsite only	1957 mute bw
	SHEEP DOG, the [6634] Add to my films Amateur overview of sheep dog trials held in Braidburn Valley, Midlothian.		1952 silent bw
	SHOP, LEITH STREET [6493] Add to my films Amateur footage featuring exterior of a smart cafe in Leith, Edinburgh.		1936 silent bw
	SIX AND SEVEN-EIGHTHS 6 7/8 OR THEREABOUTS [6423] Add to my films Amateur comedy about a man who is the subject of jokes involving hat switching at his work. He is confused until the culprits are caught and receive their comeuppance.		1977 sound col
	SMALL HOLIDAY 64 [6554] Add to my films Amateur holiday footage, unidentified location.		1964 silent bw
	SOFTLY, SOFTLY [6401] Add to my films Amateur comedy fiction film about a family so immersed in their television viewing that they don't notice a clumsy burglar enter the room and steal their possessions. Comeuppance is served when he steals their television at the end.		1968 sound col
	SONG OF ROLAND [6476] Add to my films Amateur travelogue through the Pyrenees district of France and Spain.		1979 sound col
	SPASKI & HUTCHSKI [6290] Add to my films Fictional chess game in which the players briefly fall asleep only for the chess pieces to 'come alive'.		1978 silent col
	SPASTICS FILM [6477] Add to my films Amateur general views of care and outings with children with disabilities.		1963 silent bwcol
	SPINNING WHEEL, the [5852] Add to my films Short film designed to accompany the song "The Spinning Wheel" by Delia Murphy. It depicts a young woman escaping her grandmother's croft to be with her lover.	Onsite only	1951 sound col