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Screening Propaganda: Film Documents of Contemporary History and Educational Practice, circa 1970
Sattelmacher, Anja (2023) , S. 1-33
The Institute for the Scientific Film (IWF) in Göttingen produced scientific and educational films from 1952 to 2010, including the series Film Documents of Contemporary History, containing historical footage and film portraits of postwar personalities. In 1970, a seminar at the University of Tübingen featured a lecture by Theodor Eschenburg on speeches by politicians from the Social Democratic and National Socialist parties between 1930 and 1933. The resulting film G 151-THEODOR ESCHENBURG SPRICHT is available online, but the historical footage is not. This essay examines the film’s history and the challenges of digitizing educational films containing controversial content.