Following the free online publication of several digitized newsreel collections, this article seeks to articulate a place for newsreels as a primary source base in twentieth-century British history, and to provide some basic guidance for students, teachers, and researchers who might wish to integrate newsreels into their work. It briefly traces the history of the newsreel industry in Britain, the conditions of newsreel production and distribution, and newsreels’ audience. It discusses how a digital newsreel archive came to be constructed and how it has been used in the past for both academic and pedagogical purposes. It argues that researchers and teachers can overcome scepticism about newsreels’ unreliability as primary sources, engaging with the sources critically to a variety of ends. It demonstrates these claims with a case-study about films of inter-war university ‘rag’ festivities, and with a variety of practical suggestions about how to incorporate newsreels into undergraduate teaching.

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与英国新闻片一起研究和教学

继几个数字化新闻片集免费在线出版之后，本文试图阐明新闻片作为 20 世纪英国历史的主要来源基础的位置，并为可能希望整合的学生、教师和研究人员提供一些基本指导新闻片进入他们的工作。它简要追溯了英国新闻短片产业的历史、新闻短片的制作和发行条件以及新闻短片的受众。它讨论了数字新闻短片档案是如何构建的，以及它过去是如何用于学术和教学目的的。它认为，研究人员和教师可以克服对新闻片作为主要来源的不可靠性的怀疑，批判性地与来源接触以达到各种目的。