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Retelling the Past with Broadcast Archives: Context Makes Sense

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The publication of audiovisual archives asks many questions about the meaning of documents. Publishing a video archive on a Web site, for example, is a re-contextualisation. The loss of cultural references needed to understand a document implies the necessity to recontextualise documents. This means adding elements, such as titles, descriptions and other information. This paper analyzes the case of a video published by Ina on its Web platform Ina.fr and its Blog, the Blognote. The video, dated 1st January 1947, is a report envisioning a future when surveillance cameras would be installed on the streets in Paris. These two instances of publication offer two different views on the editorialization of video archives.


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Treleani, Matteo; Mussou, Claude: Retelling the Past with Broadcast Archives: Context Makes Sense. In: VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, Jg. 1 (2012-02-21), Nr. 1, S. 61-66. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14041.
@ARTICLE{Treleani2012-02-21,
 author = {Treleani, Matteo and Mussou, Claude},
 title = {Retelling the Past with Broadcast Archives: Context Makes Sense},
 year = 2012-02-21,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14041}",
 volume = 1,
 address = {Hilversum},
 journal = {VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture},
 number = 1,
 pages = {61--66},
}
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