hufilmtv1-1, Exercise 2: A plan to test a myth

Model answer (myth: "Hungarian cinema is all slow, black-and-white art films"; check the details):

Question: what other kinds of film and television were made, and who watched them?

Evidence to look for:
1. Lists of Hungarian films by year with genre, from a national film database or film history.
2. Box-office and audience figures for popular comedies and genre films in the state-cinema years and after (check what figures survive).
3. Television programmes and series that viewers remember, from archives and viewer surveys.
4. Which films were sent to festivals, compared with which were watched at home.

Where: national film archive and institute catalogues, English-language film histories, festival catalogues.

Likely result: the art-film image reflects what travelled abroad through festivals, while the home output included comedies, children's films and television that were widely loved.