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However, records from the 1960s and 1970s suggest the Film Society might have been active even before 1958. A January 1961 Sunday Times article noted that the Singapore Film Society had been "in existence for six years." Similarly, in February 1971, film critic Koh wrote that the society "had been in existence for some 16 years." In the 19 March 1985 edition of The Singapore Monitor, Wong Sing Yeong claimed that "the Singapore Film Society was formed in 1956 to complement the commercial cinema by screening less popular art films."
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Latent Images is a key academic work on the history and development of Singapore cinema. I recommend the CD-ROM version, released 3 years after the book with some updates. It also contains video clips - interviews and footage of the former Shaw studios at Jalan Ampas.
If you're interested, you can get it online from the Asian Film Archive.
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You can also find the book and CD-ROM versions at most of our public libraries.
They will be shelved under "Singapore Collection" and their call numbers would be:
Book: SING 384.8095957 UHD
CD-ROM: SING 791.43095957 UHD
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