A monthly treat for Bristol film fans will be no more as the Watershed’s printed brochure reaches the end of its 30-year life. “We have finally concluded that the brochure has become a luxury none of us can afford,” writes Watershed head of communications Louise Gardner in the March 2013 brochure.
Gardner writes that the significant resources the brochure takes up can better be used “in a more sustainable, smarter way elsewhere”, with the brochure no longer serving its original purpose.
Since September 2010 when the Watershed moved to flexible screening times, the brochure has not included a calendar of what’s on when, and after three years of consultation the conclusion is that customers now find out film times online, at the box office or in the weekly printed listings guide.
The demise of the Watershed brochure is yet another death knell for the printed word in Bristol, but salvation could be on the horizon with the news that The Bristolian will be back on the streets next week.
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Thanks for the plug! Print’s not dead. The internet’s for wimps!
A pleasure. Do please let me know where copies will be distributed.
p.s. “Journalists who write stories off the web from posh cafés in Clifton”? As a point of record, let it be known that very occasionally I have even been known to stray onto Cotham Hill.