“补助兴复海军社”的电影放映活动始末

The Whole Story of "Navy Club of Remedy and Revival",a Film-Projection Movement

留日学生王曾宪、朱增濬于1906年暑假期间成立了"补助兴复海军社",购买了电影放映设备和一批影片希望将放映电影的收益充作海军军费并凭借影片普及军事知识达到振兴海军的目的。本文通过《申报》相关报道提供的记载,结合当时的社会文化语境,以微观史和观念史的方法,还原历史中一个不为人注意的事件,从而显影晚清上海公共领域特有的时代和地域特色,同时也阐明早期电影接受及传播的相关事实,以及电影这一外来的杂耍如何在中国都市文化语境中产生意义。

Wang Zengxian and Zhu Zengjun, two students studying in Japan, set up ＂Navy Club of Remedy and Revival＂ in their summer vacation in 1906. They purchased film-projection facilities and a range of films and hoped that the income from this film projection movement would be a remedy for the navy expenditure, meantime popularizing military knowledge to revitalize the navy. Based on the relative description of this event on Shenbao newspaper and paying attention to then social and cultural situations, this article uses methods of microhistory and conceptual history to restore a not-so-well-known incident to show the time and region features in public places in Shanghai during the late Qing Dynasty, as well as to illustrate the relative reality of the reception and communication of early films and how films, a foreign trick, finally took root and bear meaning in the cultural situation of Chinese cities.