Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive: 1930s Britain and Beyond

电影记忆和数字档案馆是关于扩大我们的知识和对观众如何与电影有关并记住电影体验的理解。“去看电影”是怎么被记住的？这些记忆中的经历该如何表达呢？在演讲中？以书面形式？通过一系列创造性的实践？关于我们对电影的记忆如何在我们的日常生活中发挥作用，这样的表达能告诉我们什么？该项目致力于21世纪数字传播和研究的发展，将扩大学术和公众对电影体验元素的了解。该项目将创建一个免费提供的网站，其中包括一系列与英国电影有关的历史材料。网站上将提供哪些具体材料？该项目的起点是在《1930年代英国电影文化》(CCINTB)的过程中收集的材料，这是一项在20世纪90年代对20世纪30年代的电影观众和电影观影情况进行的大规模调查。CCINTB藏品保存在兰开斯特大学图书馆的特别收藏中，包括：a)对居住在英国大陆四个地区的20世纪30年代的电影人进行了250多个小时的深入采访b)来自英国各地的30年代电影人完成了约200份问卷)从受访者和问卷回复者那里收到了200多封信、文章和书面回忆录d)超过150项30年代的电影纪念品和艺术品(日记、明信片收藏、剪贴簿、电影节目、海报、杂志)，这些珍贵的资源目前被公众隐藏。一个专门的网站的建立和整个收藏的数字化将意味着所有的CCINTB资料将以数字的形式提供给公众和学术研究人员。在CCINTB收藏收集以来的一段时间里，关于历史电影接受的研究有了很大的扩展，现在是电影研究的一个重要分支领域。这也是一个引起公众相当大兴趣的话题。利用和开发目前人文科学和社会科学学者可用的数字工具，将这些关于20世纪30年代电影和电影记忆的材料与更近期的调查进行对话的时机已经成熟。除了对藏品进行物理管理和数字更新、存档和编目之外，还将开展新的研究和面向公众的活动。其中将包括以CCINTB收藏为灵感的新戏剧制作和一系列电影放映活动，其中包括对举报人采访的阅读和摘录。该项目的研究阶段将旨在介绍关于电影体验和电影记忆的实质性新发现，同时也通过国际研讨会、会议和出版物与研究界分享这些见解。在整个项目期间都安排了公众参与活动，以便项目的许多结果可以与普通公众分享。项目初期将启动一项以档案为基础的活动方案，包括创意艺术家驻留，不仅是为了宣传，还着眼于访问者的作品可能会以可能意想不到的方式进入项目的研究设计和/或网络界面的构建。

CINEMA MEMORY AND THE DIGITAL ARCHIVE is about expanding our knowledge and understanding of how audiences relate to and remember the experience of cinemagoing. How is 'going to the pictures' remembered? How may these remembered experiences be expressed? In speech? In writing? Through a range of creative practices? What can such expressions tell us about how our memories of films figure in our daily lives? Engaging in 21st-century developments in digital communication and research, this project will expand academic and public knowledge of these elements of the cinema experience.The project will produce a freely available website composed of a range of historical materials related to cinemagoing in Britain. What specific materials will be available on the website? The project's starting point is the materials gathered in the course of 'Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain' (CCINTB), a large-scale inquiry, conducted in the 1990s, into cinema audiences and filmgoing in the 1930s. Deposited in Special Collections at Lancaster University Library, the CCINTB collection includes:a) Over 250 hours of in-depth interviews with 1930s cinemagoers living in four areas of mainland Britainb) Some 200 questionnaires completed by 1930s cinemagoers from across the UKc) Over 200 letters, essays and written memoirs received from interviewees and questionnaire respondentsd) Over 150 items of cinemagoing memorabilia and artefacts from the 1930s (diaries, postcard collections, scrapbooks, cinema programmes, posters, magazines), mostly donated by informants.This valuable resource is currently hidden from public view. The production of a dedicated website and the digitisation of the entire collection will mean that all of the CCINTB materials will be made available in digital form to members of the general public as well as academic researchers.In the period since the CCINTB collection was assembled, research on historical film reception has expanded considerably, and is now an important subfield within film studies. It is also a topic that attracts considerable public interest. The time is ripe to bring this material on 1930s cinemagoing and cinema memory into conversation with more recent inquiries, by drawing on and developing digital tools now available to scholars in the humanities and social sciences.Alongside the physical management and digital updating, archiving and cataloguing of the collection, programmes of new research and public-facing activities will be conducted. These will include a new theatre production inspired by the CCINTB collection and a range of film screening events featuring readings and recordings of extracts from informants' interviews.The project's research phase will aim to introduce substantial new findings on the cinema experience and cinema memory, while also sharing these insights with the research community via international workshops, conferences, and publications. Public engagement events are scheduled throughout the duration of the project so that many of the project's findings can be shared with the general public. A programme of archive-based activities, including residencies for creative artists, will be launched early on in the project, with a view not only to publicising it but also with an eye to the possibility that visitors' work may feed, in perhaps unanticipated ways, into the project's research design and/or the construction of its web interface.