Jeffrey Geiger on the 2019-20 BAAS Founders’ Research Award
I am grateful to have been recipient of a BAAS Founders’ Award – the support has been invaluable to my research into the early uses of amateur colour film. The BAAS Founders’ Award provides UK scholars with financial assistance for research travel and invited conference presentations, and more recently has been broadened to include research conducted remotely, boosting inclusivity and encouraging reduction of carbon footprints. This particular grant allowed me to undertake further extended archival research on the project ‘Kodachrome Travels: Colour and the “American Pacific” Imagination’. This project focuses on colour films made across Oceania by American amateur filmmakers, beginning in 1935 when Kodachrome stock was first marketed. During the years just before the Second World War, vast increases in tourism on the seas coincided with profound transitions in the Pacific region, with European colonial networks still entrenched and US expansionism soon to exert its greatest impact. The locales […]