The Ronald Grant archive and the cinema museum

摘要

It is rare that I come away from a visit to a cinema-related venue without a fairly clear idea about what I am going to write, but as I left the Ronald Grant Archive and The Cinema Museum, one man's very personal and eclectic collection of all things related to the cinema, it was with a complete mixture of emotions - joy and nostalgia at everything I had seen, touched and smelled during the afternoon, and sadness at the knowledge that unless some miracle happens, and quickly, none of this will be here in a few months time, and the accumulated work of a lifetime will be destroyed or scattered around the world.