Provenance and early cinema / Edited by Joanne Bernardi [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernardi, Joanne, editor.

Series:

Early Cinema in Review: Proceedings of Domitor

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Provenance.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (431 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Concerned contributors in Provenance and Early Cinema challenge scholars digging through film archives to ask, ""How did these moving images get here for me to see them?This volume, which features the conference proceedings from Domitor, the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema, 2018, questions preservation, attribution, and patterns of reuse in order to explore singular artifacts with long and circuitous lives.

Contents:

24. Provenance on Ice: Dawson City: Frozen Time and the Dawson City Collection

25. Praxis as Media Historiography: The Peep Box's "expanding View" as Virtual Reality

26. How Newspaper Novels and Their Illustrations Shaped Japanese Films

27. Archival Object or Object Lesson? Bricolage as Process and as Concept in the Edmundo Padilla Collection

Appendix: French Language Essay

28. La Collection De Kerstrat-d'hauterives, De Sa Provenience À Sa Provenance

29. D'où Viennent Les Costumes Du Cinema Des Premiers Temps?

18. A Journey on the World's Most Northerly Railway: The Renaming and Remaking of Swedish Industrial Films

19. In Search of "The Edison Biograph Company": Film History through Philippine Archives

20. Ownership, Exploitation, Stewardship: Tracking the Footage of the 1911-1913 Australian Antarctic Expedition

Part IV. Repurposing

21. Finding Early Cinema in the Avant-Garde: Research and Investigation

22. Ernie Gehr's The Collector (2003) and Ernie Gehr the Collector

23. Flicker: Thom Andersen Takes Muybridge to the Movies

12. The Great War at Scale: New Opportunities for Provenance in World War I Collections at the National Archives (Nara)

Part III. Circulation

13. Chicago's "censored Casualties" and the Provenance of Archive Prints

14. What Made the Mechanicals Move? Postcards in Transit

15. "The End of a Foreign Monopoly": Bausch and Lomb and the Wartime Provenance of Optical Glass

16. Pathe Films in Brazil: The Archives of Marc Ferrez & Sons (1908-1916)

17. Establishing the Provenance of Early Advertising Films: Film Catalogs and the Creation of the Nontheatrical Market

6. Shattered Provenance in the Digitization of Early Colorfilms

Part II. Preservation and Collection

7. Dreaming in Color: The Image and the Artifact

8. Where Did the Costumes in Early Cinema Come From?

9. Thinking With Provenance: Drawing Trajectories in the Francis Doublier Collection at the George Eastman Museum

10. Revisiting the Films of Albert Kahn's Archives De La Planete: a Material Survey

11. The Thanhouser Studio Filmography: Analysis and Extant Prints

Cover

Title page

Copy right

Contents

Domitor Series

Precis

Introduction: Provenance and Early Cinema: From Preservation and Collection to Circulation and Repurposing

Part I. Studying Provenance: From Analog to Digital

1. Film Provenance: A Framework for Analysis

2. Origins: Early Films and Archival Collections

3. From Provenience to Provenance: The Kerstrat-d'hauterives Collection

4. Provenance and Film Historiography: 1910s Films at the George Eastman Museum

5. Issues of Provenance and Attribution for the Canon: Bookending Robert Paul

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-05300-5

OCLC:

1225552339