Cinema theatre as a millstone

Abstract

In his article, the author describes the responses to the cinema presentations of the so-called risqué films in Slovenia at the turn of the 20th century. The first part of the article deals with the first presentations of such footage at the end of the 19th century, which was released by Johann Bl(ser, the owner of a travelling cinema, while the second part of the article focuses on the time before and during the First World War, when cinema theatres had already become quite widespread. In this period, these racy films attracted the attention of the bishop of Ljubljana, Anton Bonaventura Jeglič. The article is based on the newspaper coverage of the topic and the documents of the bishop Anton Bonaventura Jeglič, kept in the Archbishopric Archive of Ljubljana, as well as on the bishop's diary, a transcript/copy of which is kept in the Archives of Slovenia.