Lights, Camera, Action! The story of Singapore film Feb 11 | Peatix tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2021-11-15T08:13:29+08:00 Peatix Jane Iyer Lights, Camera, Action! The story of Singapore film Feb 11 tag:peatix.com,2017:event-229133 2017-02-11T09:00:00SGT 2017-02-11T09:00:00SGT This is a really fun tour, as you can tell from the photo above taken at the Shaw Studios on a tour in 2016!Background: the post war years, especially the 1950s, saw Singapore's "golden age of cinema" and was dominated by 2 movie companies, Shaw & Cathay.Although both these names survive in their movie theatres, only the Shaw studios still exist - albeit as a testament to the past - while the Cathay studios have long since disappeared.In recent years the movie industry here has enjoyed something of a revival with many Singaporean directors such as Jack Neo, Eric Khoo, Royston Tan, Anthony Chen and Ken Kwek releasing films to not only national, but also international, acclaim.Itinerary: our tour will visit the Shaw Studios, we'll then hop on a bus and visit some sites from movies made here (while watching clips from those movies),then onto the Cathay Gallery and we'll end at Objectifs arts centre in Waterloo St for a chat about the current film scene in Singapore.At 2pm there is the option to return to Objectifs (after lunch nearby at the Design Cafe) to watch a made for TV film, "Time Tomorrow" there. It's historically significant for being the 1st full-length original English drama produced for local television. A previous fun visit to the Shaw studios... Updates tag:peatix.com,2017-02-07 10:23:14 2017-02-07 10:23:14 The event description was updated. Diff#224071 Updates tag:peatix.com,2017-02-06 01:43:30 2017-02-06 01:43:30 The event description was updated. Diff#223688 Updates tag:peatix.com,2017-02-02 13:59:40 2017-02-02 13:59:40 The event description was updated. Diff#222927 Updates tag:peatix.com,2017-01-12 01:17:01 2017-01-12 01:17:01 Title was changed to "Lights, Camera, Action! The story of Singapore film Feb 11". Orig#217721