Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen KeiperDeutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
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Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper
Reconstructing Film Culture: Lost Films and Collaboration on the Web
BerlinKNOWLEDGE BY NETWORKING
Digitising Culture in Germany and EuropeJune 21, 2007
Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen KeiperDeutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
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Problem:
• about 80% of silent films are lost
• also important talkies are lost
Problem that concerns each country more or less
Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen KeiperDeutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
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Unidentified films
Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen KeiperDeutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
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Creating context
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One example: „THE CASE OF LENA SMITH“
Found materials - China: fragment of 100 meter- Japan: description of the complete film- USA: production documents, photos- USA II: set designs, private collections- Austria: censorship card- Germany: censorship card
- Austria: book publication
Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen KeiperDeutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
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One example: „METROPOLIS“
Keyword in the original compositionTitle card from the censorship list
Still from a lost sequence
Original screenplay
Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen KeiperDeutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
7/15Thursday, 21 June 2007
Preliminary film list
• about 50 films
Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen KeiperDeutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
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Conclusion:
• Losing knowledge about symbolic universe represented both by documentaries and feature films:
• Lack of visual culture and • Oral and Intangible
Heritage (gesture, body language)
General problem: A tentency to focus on the surviving heritage, to prioritise the visible in favour of the invisible
METROPOLISCityscape (Erich Kettelhut); Babel tower
Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen KeiperDeutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
9/15Thursday, 21 June 2007
For example:Body language of Asta
Nielsen
Das Mädchen ohne Vaterland, D 1912
Zapatas Bande, D 1913/14
At least 8 Asta Nielson films are presumed to be lost…
Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen KeiperDeutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
10/15Thursday, 21 June 2007
1. Solution: Displaying surrogates from the archives
Scripts
Advertising materials
Film journals
RONNYD 1931R: Reinhold Schünzel
Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen KeiperDeutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
11/15Thursday, 21 June 2007
Problem:Documents are scattered here and there
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Solution:Collaboration on the web(webbased interface)
•Content•Annotations
Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen KeiperDeutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
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Project LOST FILMS
Centre national de la cinématographie
funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation
Start: June 2007Duration: 18 months
Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen KeiperDeutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
14/15Thursday, 21 June 2007
Problem of collaborative systems:
• Focussing on technology• Technocratic understanding of social processes
Example:Question of recognition in collaborative systems
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General perspective:- Semantic networks- CIDOC CRM- Webservices for authority files, vocabularies- Collaboration with shared content- Collaboration in software development- Building expert communities
Perspective of LOST FILMS:Expert communitiesSearch, Identification, collaborative Reconstruction of further filmsCollaborative software development (open source)
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