Remembering 1960s British Cinema-going

“回忆20世纪60年代英国观影”是早期ahrc资助的“文化记忆和20世纪60年代英国观影”项目的延续，该项目旨在通过问卷调查和访谈的方式收集半个世纪前英国观影者的记忆。早期的项目（2013-15）引起了公众的极大兴趣。11次放映最初是为了让人们参与到项目中来。这些作品受到了热烈的欢迎，最终我们在英国组织了30场放映，并就该项目的工作进行了14场演讲。反馈问卷的人比我们最初预期的要多得多，无论是在线的还是纸质的，我们经常被告知，完成问卷、接受项目团队的采访或参加我们的活动是一次愉快的经历，为那些记得20世纪60年代的人带来了更多的回忆。年轻人发现，我们的活动让他们了解了父辈或祖辈看电影的不同世界。“回忆20世纪60年代英国电影”项目的主要目的是将早期项目所产生的丰富研究成果引起更广泛的观众和公众的注意。它还将鼓励更广泛的社区成员和学者使用伦敦大学学院图书馆网站上的匿名项目问卷和访谈的数字收藏，这是原始项目的成果。为了实现这些目标，我们将与不同的合作伙伴一起组织一系列宣传良好的活动，吸引英国社会的不同阶层。3场大型“沉浸式60年代电影院”活动将以富有想象力的方式再现60年代观影体验。这些活动将把对60年代有个人记忆的人与对当时文化感兴趣的年轻人聚集在一起。从我们早期的研究中，我们发现许多人对在特定地点看电影有非常具体的记忆。我们将与当地的公民、历史协会、电影俱乐部和第三时代大学（U3A）分支机构一起，在英国各地的23个进一步的活动中展示和讨论这些当地的发现。我们的研究还发现，在一些群体中，包括BAME和LGBT群体的成员，他们的观影文化也有所不同，我们将在接下来的9场活动中向相关群体的成员概述这些发现。因为看电影的回忆能让我们对20世纪60年代的英国历史有一个特别的了解，有许多电影讲述了当时的社会、文化和政治问题，我们将通过9个学校活动，其中2个是与英国电影学院联合组织的“学习日”，来展示我们的工作与英国现代史AS/ a- level课程的教师和学生的相关性。我们的60年代电影资料的数字收藏将特别吸引这些教师和学生，因为它将鼓励和支持个人或集体的研究和项目工作。它也与U3A的成员有关，他们正在研究特定的电影或类型。我们相信，我们的发现和数字收藏的存在将对我们的文化遗产的识别和保护做出重要贡献，特别是为与我们合作的社区和组织（特别是BAME和LGBT群体）以及当地公民社会，历史协会和电影俱乐部之间的电影院和电影院的当地历史项目提供进一步的刺激。我们也相信，我们的“沉浸式60年代电影”活动将产生广泛的影响，证明足够成功，并被电影行业本身所采用。

'Remembering 1960s British Cinema-going' follows on from the earlier AHRC-funded project 'Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s,' which was designed to collect - by means of questionnaires and interviews - memories of those who went to British cinemas half a century ago. The earlier project (2013-15) stimulated much public interest. 11 screenings were originally proposed as a means of involving people in the project. These were so enthusiastically received that ultimately we organised 30 screenings across the UK and gave 14 talks about the project's work. Many more people than we originally anticipated returned questionnaires, either online or in paper form, and we were frequently told that completing the questionnaire, being interviewed by the project team or participating in one of our events had been an enjoyable experience, prompting more memories for those who remember the 1960s. Younger people found that our events offered insight into the different world of cinema-going of their parents' or grandparents' generation. The principal aim of the 'Remembering 1960s British Cinema-going' project is to bring the wealth of research produced by the earlier project to the attention of a much greater variety of audiences and publics. It will also encourage the use of the Digital Collection of anonymised project questionnaires and interviews on the UCL Library website, an output of the original project, by members of the wider community as well as scholars. To achieve these aims, we will organise - with diverse partners - a series of well-publicised events appealing to different sections of the UK community. 3 large 'immersive 60s cinema' events will imaginatively recreate the experience of 60s cinema-going. These will bring together those who have personal memories of the 60s with younger people interested in aspects of the culture of the time. From our earlier research, we have discovered that many people have very specific memories of going to the cinema in particular localities. We will join with local civic, history societies, film clubs and University of the Third Age (U3A) branches to present and discuss these local findings in 23 further events across the UK. Our research has also identified a different culture of cinema-going amongst some groups, including members of the BAME and LGBT communities, and we will outline these findings with members of the groups concerned at 9 further events. Because cinema-going memories throw a special light on British history of the 1960s, with many films addressing social, cultural and political issues of the day, we will demonstrate the relevance of our work to teachers and students of AS/A-level courses on modern British history through 9 school events, 2 of them 'Study Days' organised in association with the British Film Institute. Our digital collection of 60s cinema-going materials will be of particular interest to such teachers and students, since it will encourage and support individual or collective research and project work. It will also be relevant to members of the U3A who are studying particular films or genres. The presentation of our findings and the existence of the Digital Collection will make, we believe, an important contribution to the identification and preservation of our cultural heritage, offering in particular a further stimulus to local history projects dealing with cinemas and cinema-going among the communities and organisations with whom we collaborate, in particular among BAME and LGBT groups, as well as local civic societies, history associations and film clubs. We also trust that our 'immersive 60s cinema' events will have a broad impact, proving successful enough to be adopted by the cinema industry itself.