Shortly after the proclamation of the Second Republic in April 1931, groups of cultural activists left Spain’s urban centres for its rural regions, with the aim of bringing culture to those areas’ poorest inhabitants. The participants in these ‘pedagogic missions’ organized theatrical events, recited poems, distributed books and sang songs in places that had previously been considered as locked in the cultural middle ages. They also brought cinema to people who did not even know of its existence: ‘One could write a whole book about the reaction to cinema by people who hadn’t even known the “magic lantern”’,1¹ wrote one of the activists. And eventually that is what these ‘missionaries’ did: they filed reports about the experience of ‘virgin’ audiences reacting for the first time to moving images;2² they filmed and photographed them; they described their astonishment, doubts and anxieties.

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一个主文惊叹：电影院观看行为，教育学和前卫在20世纪30年代西班牙

在1931年4月第二共和国宣布成立后不久，一些文化活动家离开西班牙的城市中心前往农村地区，目的是将文化带给这些地区最贫穷的居民。这些“教学任务”的参与者在以前被认为已锁定在文化中世纪的地方组织了戏剧活动，朗诵诗歌，分发书籍和唱歌。他们还把电影带给了一个甚至不知道电影存在的人：“一个人甚至可以写一本书，讲述甚至还不知道“魔术灯”的人对电影的反应。” 1 ^1的其中一位活动家写道。最终，这些“传教士”所做的就是：他们提交了有关“处女”观众第一次对运动图像做出反应的经历的报告； 2 ²他们拍摄并拍摄了照片；他们描述了他们的惊讶，怀疑和焦虑。