Remembering 1960s British Cinema-going

《纪念20世纪60年代的英国电影》是AHRC早先资助的项目《文化记忆与英国电影60年代》的延续，该项目旨在通过问卷和采访的方式，收集半个世纪前去英国电影院观影的人们的记忆。早些时候的项目(2013-15)引起了公众的极大兴趣。最初提出的11次放映是让人们参与到该项目中来的一种手段。这些活动非常受欢迎，最终我们在英国各地组织了30场放映活动，并就该项目的工作进行了14次演讲。比我们最初预期的要多得多的人回复了问卷，无论是在线的还是纸质的，我们经常被告知，填写问卷、接受项目团队的采访或参加我们的活动是一种愉快的经历，让那些记得20世纪60年代的人想起了更多的事情。年轻人发现，我们的活动让他们深入了解了他们父母或祖父母那一代人去看电影的不同世界。“回忆20世纪60年代英国电影”项目的主要目的是让更多种类的观众和公众注意到早期项目产生的丰富研究成果。它还将鼓励广大社区成员以及学者在伦敦大学学院图书馆网站上使用匿名项目问卷数字收藏和采访，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共同组织一系列广为人知的活动，吸引英国社会的不同阶层。3场身临其境的60年代影院大型活动，将极富想象力地再现60年代的观影体验。这些活动将把那些对60年代有个人记忆的人与对当时文化方面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，在特定的地区，许多人对去电影院有非常具体的记忆。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个进一步活动中展示和讨论这些地方调查结果。我们的研究还发现了一些群体中不同的观影文化，包括BAME和LGBT社区的成员，我们将在9个进一步的活动中与相关群体的成员概述这些发现。由于观影记忆对20世纪60年代的英国历史产生了特殊的影响，许多电影都涉及当时的社会、文化和政治问题，我们将通过9项学校活动向AS/A级课程的教师和学生展示我们的工作与现代英国历史的相关性，其中2项活动是与英国电影学院联合举办的。我们60年代电影材料的数字收藏将特别引起这些教师和学生的兴趣，因为它将鼓励和支持个人或集体的研究和项目工作。它也将与正在研究特定电影或流派的U3A成员相关。我们相信，展示我们的发现和数字收藏的存在将对识别和保护我们的文化遗产做出重要贡献，特别是进一步刺激与我们合作的社区和组织，特别是在BAME和LGBT团体以及当地公民协会、历史协会和电影俱乐部中涉及电影院和电影院的地方历史项目。我们也相信，我们的‘沉浸式60年代电影院’活动将产生广泛的影响，事实证明，这些活动足够成功，足以被电影业本身采用。

'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.