Jeudi 27 mars 2008 4 27 /03 /Mars /2008 17:21

Some documents of a South Pole Expedition ( 1910 - 1912 )

"Roald Amundsen and his 4-man team reached the South Pole, with the help of polar dogs, on 14 December 1911. The expedition, and particularly the dog-sled journey to the Pole, is described as daring and with an exceptionally good logistic planning and execution.

The Antarctic and the Arctic Polar Regions, for several centuries, were regarded as the final frontiers for mankind to conquer, and the North and South Poles were for a long period of time the great goals to attain within geographic discovery.

The discoveries in the polar areas contributed, not least in Norway but also internationally, to greater consciousness of, and political interest in, questions concerning sovereignty and rights in these sea and land areas.

The original film material of Roald Amundsen’s South Pole Expedition documents a great historic achievement, outside the borders of the civilized world and in an extreme climatic environment.

In his time, Roald Amundsen (1872 – 1928) contributed, through several expeditions and together with his teams, to new knowledge within several aspects of polar research. First and foremost, however, he is remembered as a master of the classic polar expedition's planning and execution.

The film collection is unique, as it documents the important events of this first expedition to reach the South Pole. Though the material is incomplete, it is made up of original sequences, filmed between 1910 and 1912, consisting of negative film and first and second-generation print material."

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DC coverage : Norway.
DC creator : UNESCO.
DC date : 2005-07-07.
DC description : presents the Norway - Amundsen's South Pole Expedition ( 1910 - 1912 ).
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DC subject : expeditions, documents.
DC title : Norway - Roald Amundsen's South Pole Expedition (1910-1912).
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Jeudi 27 mars 2008 4 27 /03 /Mars /2008 17:12

Documentary heritage concerning Mexico listed in a memory

"The film Los olvidados (in the USA “The Young and the Damned”), made in 1950 by Spanish-Mexican director Luis Buñuel, is the most important document in Spanish about the marginal lives of children in contemporary large cities, and it is also a crude, realist vision, without any concessions, of one part of Mexican society, focalized in a Mexico City slum in which the characters, who have been observed carefully and truthfully, follow their necessary destiny as a result of the social and economic circumstances that surround them.
With Los olvidados, Buñuel brings to world cinematography a complete work where, without abandoning the surrealist aesthetics of his first films such as El perro andaluz (1928), and La edad de oro (1930), he gives a passionate portrayal of the forgotten ones, in a brutal but honest way, both tragic and poetic; in sum, a film that will always be contemporary.

Los olvidados faced many difficulties from the start. Buñuel devoted two years of research prior to writing his script, then he had to convince producer Oscar Dancigers to grant him stylistic and ideological freedom, and finally even some of his collaborators, scared of repercussions, asked that their names not be included on the screen credits.
Dancigers was aware of the problems that this film could face from censorship as well as from conservative groups of Mexican society, or that it might even not be shown at all. He therefore had a “second ending” filmed, almost in secret, which was contrary to the tragic sense of the movie. In the end, due to the support of Mexican intellectuals and the award received at the Cannes Film Festival, the film was successfully shown in its original version, and only fifty years later was the “second ending” discovered.
The original cellulose nitrate negative of Los olvidados, lost for twenty years, was fortunately found and is now protected in the vaults of Filmoteca of UNAM, having been placed there in deposit by its present owner, Televisa S.A., the company which acquired full patrimonial and related rights, including the original negative, which is the document nominated for Memory of the World."

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DC coverage : Mexico.
DC creator : UNESCO.
DC date : 2006-10-03.
DC description : presents an Heritage (which is concerning Mexico and listed in a Memory).
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DC subject : heritages, Memories.
DC title : Los Olvidados.
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Jeudi 27 mars 2008 4 27 /03 /Mars /2008 17:00

A negative of the reconstructed version of " METROPOLIS "

"Fritz Lang's motion picture METROPOLIS (1927) is without doubt famous testimony of German silent film art, a testimony that made history. The combination of motion picture and architecture: this is above all and still METROPOLIS, the film which was shot by Fritz Lang in the Babelsberg Film Studios in 1925/1926, which, due to its immense expenditure, caused the UFA, the largest German film group, to run into financial difficulties, which then had a glittering première in Berlin in January 1927, and an unparalleled success all over the world ever since - and which became the symbol of a (film-) architectural model of the future.

Substantially shortened and changed almost immediately after the première in Berlin, only one (though fragmentary) of the initially three original negatives of METROPOLIS has been left in the possession of the German Federal Archives, as well as master copies of the lost original negatives in a few archives abroad.

As a result of intense investigations on the initiative of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, a new reconstruction has been produced. It was first shown in February 2001, on the occasion of the Berlin Film Festival. Considering that the result this time is again not the original version of METROPOLIS, but „only" a synthetic version made of the fragments handed down, it comes, however, as close to the original piece of work as possible. With this reconstruction project a new digitized "original" negative has been produced to provide more independence and better copying quality in the future. This reconstructed version of METROPOLIS is proposed for nomination here."

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DC coverage : Germany.
DC creator : UNESCO.
DC date : 2005-06-20.
DC description : presents a negative of the reconstructed version 2001 of "METROPOLIS".
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DC language : English.
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DC subject : negatives, versions.
DC title : Metropolis.
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Jeudi 27 mars 2008 4 27 /03 /Mars /2008 16:45

A presentation of the Lumière Museum ( villa of the Institut )

"Since 1982, the Institut Lumière has had its home in the heart of Monplaisir, that historical area of Lyon where the Lumière brothers invented the Cinématographe and where, in 1895, they shot the first film in the history of the cinema : "Sortie d'Usine".
Concurrently, a place of reminiscence and a film theater, the Institut is a genuine Living Museum of the Cinema. Films are screened, directors are invited, exhibitions are organized, young viewers are educated within these walls.
Its double vocation embodies heritage conservation – films, books, photos, posters, pre-cinematographic and cinematographic equipment – and publicity-related artistic activities – film screenings, exhibitions, publication, education and training.
 
The Lumière Institute (Villa, Warehouse, Park) is housed on the site of the Lumière factories, where the Cinematograph was invented in 1895. It is a museum, a cinema library, a documentation centre, a place for preservation, and a home to memories.
 
The first stop on the tour of the Lumière Museum is the Villa. This opens with the Winter Garden, which is also known as the Bernard Chardère Reading Room, and the main living rooms: an Evolution Counter charts the invention of cinema (ground floor).
The tour continues by winding through the maze of rooms in a “castle” built in 1902, before visitors go down the circular stairs into the basement (formerly cellars) where Lumière films are permanently playing, accompanied by a commentary Visitors then take off up the main staircase towards the first floor. Here they discover Antoine’s bedroom and the room dedicated to the Lyon collector, Paul Génard. The tour culminates with two exhibitions: “The pleasures and the days”, which is based on the Lumières family life, and “Gabriel Veyre’s world”, which is dedicated to the most famous Lumière cinematographer.
On the way to the second floor, visitors pass through the “servants’ quarters”. The last door leads to the Raymond Chirat Library, which is located at the top of the Villa in the former workshop of the painter Antoine Lumière, the father of Louis and Auguste. From the adjacent terrace, visitors have a wonderful view of the whole site.
After returning to reception, visitors are encouraged to take a stroll around the Park (and through its “Inventors’ Alley”) and along Rue du Premier-Film (with its “Film-makers Wall”), which is where Lumière positioned his Cinematograph to shoot La Sortie des usines Lumière (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory).
The tour concludes in the First Film Warehouse, the first ever film set in the history of cinema. Classified as a Historical Monument in 1995, this Warehouse is now home to the Lumière Institute’s cinema theatre."

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DC coverage : France.
DC creator : the Institut Lumière.
DC date : - .
DC description : general presentation of the Lumière Museum ( villa of the Institut Lumière ).
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DC title : GENERAL PRESENTATION of the Institut Lumière.
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Jeudi 27 mars 2008 4 27 /03 /Mars /2008 16:22

UNESCO Courier ISSN 1993-8616 2007 - number 5 Cinema

"Lumière Films (France)

The word “cinema” originated from “cinématographe”, a device invented in 1895 by the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis. They gave the world its first ever motion picture, with the projection of “La Sortie des usines Lumière” (“Leaving the Lumière Factory”).
Their archive of 1,405 titles, produced by cinema pioneers between 1896 and 1900, contains a wealth of documentary material - scenes of daily life, historical events, drama and comedy. The collection is kept by the French Film Archives.

Metropolis (Germany)

Director Fritz Lang’s silent futuristic film is today considered a masterpiece of German expressionism. Long before the term “super-production” was associated with cinema, this film employed 35,000 extras, used up 620,000 metres of film and took close to a year to shoot. Because it was a commercial failure when first shown in 1927, it had to be heavily cut. It has since been restored to a version close to the original, with the soundtrack recorded at that time by the Saarbrücken Symphony Orchestra.

Los Olvidados (Mexico)

Lost for 20 years, the original negative of this 1950 film is now preserved in the film archives of the National Autonomous University in Mexico City. Because it portrayed children in an urban slum, it was highly controversial during filming and even after its release, better known in English as “The Young and The Damned”. The following year, it caused a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival, winning an award for Spanish-Mexican director Luis Buñuel. Until he died in 1983, Buñuel went on to make many more films in Mexico and Europe and is today one of world’s major film directors.

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Expedition (Norway)

The explorer Amundsen and his four-man team were the first people to reach the South Pole on 14 December 1911, a daring feat which successfully ended thanks to exceptionally good logistic planning and execution. The preparations for this expedition, the dog-sled journey and their return are documented in film footage from 1910 to 1912.
Though the material is incomplete, it is made up of original sequences, consisting of negative film and first and second-generation print material, kept by the Norwegian Film Institute and the National Library.

The Battle of the Somme (United Kingdom)

This 1916 film on one of the major battles of the First World War is the first feature-length documentary ever to record war in action. It marked the development of documentary and propaganda war films and brought about debate on issues concerning the ethical treatment of “factual” film which continue to be relevant today. The film’s oldest existing copy is a cornerstone of the cinematic collection of the British Imperial War Museum."

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DC coverage : world.
DC creator : the UNESCO Courier.
DC date : 2007-06-08.
DC description : presents some famous classics of world cinema and others, lesser-known. DC format : html.
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http://typo38.unesco.org/ru/cour-02-2008.html
http://typo38.unesco.org/ar/cour-02-2008.html
http://typo38.unesco.org/zh/cour-02-2008.html.
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DC subject : Lumière, Metropolis,  Los Olvidados, Amundsen's expedition, battle of Somme.
DC title : Cinema.
DC type : article.

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Jeudi 27 mars 2008 4 27 /03 /Mars /2008 16:16

British Film Institute, organization for the preservation of film

"The National Film and Television Archive/British Film Institute is the custodian of the UK's moving image heritage. It collects, preserves, restores and then shares the films and television programmes which have helped to shape and record British life and times since cinema was invented in the late nineteenth century".

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DC coverage : Great Britain.
DC creator : UNESCO.
DC date : 2005.
DC description : presents one of the british organizations for the preservation of film culture.
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DC language : English.
DC publisher : -.
DC relation : http://www.bfi.org.uk.
DC rights : © 2005 - UNESCO.
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DC subject : films, preservations.
DC title : British Film Institute.
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Jeudi 13 mars 2008 4 13 /03 /Mars /2008 15:37

World heritage : Audiovisual memory fades away in silence

"The Annual Conference of the International Federation of Television Archives, held in Paris from October 15th to 19th, will be the largest gathering of audiovisual memory managers on the planet. The challenge: safeguarding the images and sounds that testify - at least as much as the written word - of our era. 80% of the world's archives are endangered. This holds true for rich countries like the United States, whose leaders, unaware, refuse to take interest in the preservation of their audiovisual heritage, not deemed financially viable. This is also the case in developing countries, due to the cost of these operations. Can we stand by and allow the audiovisual heritage of the twentieth century to fade away forever?

I knew that I should have to die, even without your edict. Resigned to her tragic fate, Antigone spoke these words to Creon, King of Thebes. The year was 1967 , as the cameras of Jean-Claude de Nesle filmed the face of Nita Klein in an adaptation by Jean Cocteau. Sophocle's tragedy thus moved, for the first time, from the stage to the world of television and another temporality. Recorded on film, it should have been - or at least it was thought at the time - the guarantee of a new eternity.

 

But it was nothing of the sort. Images, sounds, films, videos and magnetic tapes are in turn confronted with the ephemeral. Their scheduled disappearance makes our world audiovisual heritage the unfortunate protagonist in a modern-day tragedy: the death of our collective memory. And yet here there is no determinism, no curse. It can all be avoided. This tragedy has an ending that deserves to be rewritten."

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DC coverage : world.
DC creator : HOOG, Emmanuel.
DC date : 2006 / 03 / 01.
DC description : presents a world heritage which fades away ( the audiovisual memory ).
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DC language : English.
DC publisher : -.
DC rights : © 2006 - FIAT/IFTA.
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DC subject : audiovisual memory, television.
DC title : World heritage in danger : audiovisual memory fades away in silence.
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Jeudi 31 janvier 2008 4 31 /01 /Jan /2008 16:39

Safeguarding Our Audiovisual Heritage: A World Challenge

"The preservation of the analogue film heritage and constraints and possibilities offered by the digital media isthe agenda of the annual conference of the International Federation of Film Archives FIAT/IFTA, a close partner to UNESCO in its action in the area of audiovisual archives, that takes place in Paris, from 15-19 October 2004. on
Hosted by the French Institut National de l‘Audiovisuel, under the patronage of the President of the French Senate, the conference covers themes relating to the preservation of analogical heritage as well as theconstraints and possibilities offered by digital media. Among the working sessions are :

Selection : why and how to assess the value of our archives ?
A memory in danger : what will remain of our audiovisual and sound heritage by 2020 ?
Migration towards digital formats : how to design a migration strategy, which technical options ?
Digital future : what impact will digital archives have on our activities, what can we expect from new technologies ?
In addition, there will be special sessions or workshops, including a debate on the digital future assemblingtechnology providers and users, special visits to the Inathèque consultation room at the Bibliothèque nationale de France or to the INA Archive Department in Bry-sur-Marne.
UNESCO works to help in developing audiovisual archival infrastructure, trained professionals and acceptedprofessionalreference points to ensure the safeguard and preservation of the audiovisual heritage ofhumanity.

In 2003, UNESCO’s General Conference adopted a “Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage”, a declaration ofprinciple designed to assist Member States in preparing national policies to preserve andprovide access to, digital heritage.

FIAT/IFTA was set up in Rome in 1977, by ARD, BBC, INA and RAI. With 180 members in over 70 countries, FIAT/IFTA is presently the most important professional organization in the field of broadcasting archives. Itsmembership isdrawn from public and commercial broadcasters, national audiovisual archives and technicalcompanies catering to thebroadcasting industry.

FIAT/IFTA is also a member of the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations, an umbrellaof organizationswhose primary objective is the support of professional audiovisual archive activities, whose membership is primarilyinstitutional and international (worldwide or regional)."
 
 
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DC date : 2004 - 06 - 30 .
DC description : presents the annual conference of the International Federation of Film Archives (the safeguarding).
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DC title : Safeguarding Our Audiovisual Heritage : A World Challenge.
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Jeudi 31 janvier 2008 4 31 /01 /Jan /2008 15:47

GLOSSARY OF WORDS ABOUT AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES

  • audiovisual archives
 
« Recordings of words and images, on disks, tapes and dandruff »
 
Grand dictionnaire terminologique de l'Office québécois de la langue française
 
 archives audiovisuelles
 
« enregistrements de paroles et d'images, sur disques, bandes magnétiques et pellicules »
 
Grand dictionnaire terminologique de l'Office québécois de la langue française
 
  • movie
 
« Cinematographic work »
 
Grand dictionnaire terminologique de l'Office québécois de la langue française
 
 film
 
« Œuvre cinématographique »
 
Grand dictionnaire terminologique de l'Office québécois de la langue française
 
  • Image
”For many years, librarians have been consciously depicted in the mass media as female in gender, mousy in appearance, dowdy in dress (orthopedic shoes) and know-it-all in attitude, overly serious, strict disciplinarians. Although this negative stereotype may be in part a manifestation of anti-intellectualism in American society, many professional librarians consider it unfair and would like to see it change. Although the topic is often treated humorously in the library literature (see the chapter on "Image" in Will MANLEY's The Manley Art of Librarianship, McFarland, 1993), the effect of professional image on recruitment and morale has yet to be measured systematically.
Interestingly, research conducted by Mary Jane SCHERDIN in 1992 under the aegis of the Association of College and Research Libraries reveals that the personality profiles of librarians as a group differ significantly from data on the general population. Using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator to measure personal preferences, SCHERDIN found that librarians scored substantially higher on introversion, intuitiveness, thinking than the population at large and that individuals with extroverted, sensing, feeling, perceiving preferences are rare in the library profession. Assuming that
1.      introverts are likely to be perceived by extroverts as timid or reserved,
2.      those who prefer emotion over reason may find thinkers too serious,
3.       individuals who are flexible and spontaneous tend to regard people who are systematic and well organized as rigid or controlling, SCHERDIN's findings suggest that the popular stereotype of librarians may have some basis in reality (see "Shattering Our Stereotype : Librarians' New Image" in the July 1995 issue of Library Journal).
Also refers to a visual impression of something real or imagined”.
 
Les « outils linguistiques » de http://lu.com/odlis/odlis_i.cfm
Image

« Représentation (d’une personne, d’une chose) par : la sculpture, le dessin, la photographie, etc. »
 
Dictionnaire universel de poche, Hachette, 1994.
 
  • Image Analysis
“Process of generating a set of descriptors or features on which a decision about objects in an image is based”.
“This is an extraction of meaningful information from images; mainly from digital images by means of digital image processing techniques. Image analysis tasks can be as simple as reading bar coded tags or as sophisticated as identifying a person from their face”.
Analyse d'image
 
"L'analyse d'image a pour but d'extraire des informations qualitatives ou quantitatives d'une image. Cela requiert la mise en oeuvre et l'enchaînement de processus, comme l'identification des objets ou composants de l'image encore appelé segmentation, le calcul de leurs relations topologiques ou géométriques, l'estimation de mesures globales ou locales, le cas échéant la caractérisation de ces objets".
 
 
  • Image processing
 
“Transformation of an input image into an output image with desired properties”.
 
 
Traitement d’image

« Ensemble de fonctions de calcul et de manipulation d’images numériques visant à améliorer leur visualisation (interprétation). Les principales fonctions sont la restauration d’images dégradées, l’amélioration de caractéristiques (contraste, élimination du flou), la mise en valeur d’éléments spécifiques (recherche de contours ou de plages de couleur, calcul de surfaces) et la classification ».
Vocabulaire de la documentation, ADBS, 2004.
 
  • Key-word
 
“This is a pre-selected term which can be used to refer to the content of a document. Usually, index terms are nouns or noun groups. In the Web, however, some search engines use all the words in a document as index terms”.
Mot clé
 
“Mot choisi généralement dans le titre ou le texte d’un document pour en caractériser le contenu et en permettre le recherche. Il constitue un point d’accès.
Il est à distinguer d’un descripteur qui est un terme normalisé dans un thésaurus ».
Vocabulaire de la documentation, ADBS, 2004.
 
  • Information processing (Science and Technology Dictionary Directory)
 
“the manipulation of data so that new data (implicit in the original) appear in a useful form data processing (computer science)”
Traitement de l’information.
 
« Méthodes, procédures et outils utilisés pour identifier un document (ou une collection de documents), appréhender le contenu sémantique des informations qu’il contient, les représenter dans un système d’information ».
 
Vocabulaire de la documentation, ADBS, 2004.
 
  • Information Retrieval
 
“part of computer science which studies the retrieval of information (not data) from a collection of written documents. The retrieved documents aim at satisfying a user information need usually expressed in natural language”.
 
Recherche documentaire.
 
« Ensemble des méthodes, procédures et techniques ayant pour objet de retrouver des références de documents pertinents (répondant à une demande d’information) et les documents ».
Vocabulaire de la documentation, ADBS, 2004.
 
A medium of expression consisting of a series of related images recorded on film or videotape, which when viewed in rapid succession, create the illusion of movement. The footage can be edited or unedited. Independent of subject content, the category includes both motion pictures and videorecordings. The rules for cataloging moving image collections are given in Archival Moving Image Materials: a Cataloging Manual, 2nd edition, compiled by Wendy WHITE-HENSEN (Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service, 2000).

"Sponsored by the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the Library of Congress and the National Science Foundation, MIC is an integrated online union catalog of moving images held by a variety of organizations, including libraries, museums, archives, television broadcasting companies, including films, videorecordings, digital streaming video. MIC also includes a directory of archives and links to resources on moving images and moving image preservation. MIC is part of the National Science Digital Library.
 
 
Image animée
 
« Document portant une représentation, généralement en deux dimensions, translucide, destinée à être regardée ou projetée avec mouvement à l’aide d’un instrument optique ».
Vocabulaire de la documentation, ADBS, 2004.
 
  • Processing (Science and Technology Dictionary)
 
“Further handling, manipulation, consolidation, compositing and so on, of information to convert it from one format to another or to reduce it to manageable or intelligible information”.
Traitement
 
“Manière de traiter une question, un problème".
Dictionnaire universel de poche, Hachette, 1994.
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