ABSTRACT
Studies of the historical audience of non-fiction film are rather sporadic. This chapter focuses on a specific type of cinemas in which non-fiction films have predominated, the non-stop cinemas, and examines its importance in the period immediately after the end of World War II, when they satiated the interest of contemporary audiences in audiovisual information from around the world. Based on period surveys and oral history interviews, it seeks to reconstruct the role of the non-stop cinemas in the everyday life of postwar audiences. Highlighting the specificities of temporal openness and spatial accessibility, this text argues that non-stop cinemas were an important source of education and information for pre-TV audiences.
