Provenance and Early Cinema

Remnants of early films often have a story to tell.

As material artifacts, these film fragments are central to cinema history, perhaps more than ever in our digital age of easy copying and sharing. If a digital copy is previewed before preservation or is shared with a researcher outside the purview of a film archive, knowledge about how the artifact was collected, circulated, and repurposed threatens to become obscured. When the question...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253052998
• ISBN13: 9780253052995
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher