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Emblems for a History of Media Concepts<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n

The texts collected\u00a0in\u00a0<\/span>The Promise of Cinema<\/span> are strewn with sparks of insight\u00a0relevant to audiovisual media and media imaginaries beyond their immediate context.\u00a0While these sometimes stand front and centre in the text, they are often more elusive, couched in a fleeting sentence or even an aside that can easily be overlooked. This section draws on the Internet to bring observations and ideas from the texts to life. Mixing image, text and sound, these Denkbilder could be compared to audiovisual emblems or video aphorisms (rather than video essays). While a few of the connections here are illustrative, showing films a writer was referring to or films that she or he might have seen, most are more creative, probing the potential afterlives of ideas and concepts from the texts. We welcome contributions from users. If a passage from the book inspires a creative connection, please send your idea to the editor with a relevant video link. We also welcome video essays related to the book and early cinema more broadly.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Archive<\/a><\/td>\r\nBodies<\/a><\/td>\r\nConsciousness<\/a><\/td>\r\nDisappearance<\/a><\/td>\r\nDream<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Education<\/a><\/td>\r\nEnvironment<\/a><\/td>\r\nEvent<\/a><\/td>\r\nFuturology<\/a><\/td>\r\nGlobalism<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Immersion<\/a><\/td>\r\nImmortality<\/a><\/td>\r\nMatter<\/a><\/td>\r\nMemory<\/a><\/td>\r\nMotion<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Museum<\/a><\/td>\r\nNervousness<\/a><\/td>\r\nObsolescence<\/a><\/td>\r\nPerception<\/a><\/td>\r\nRemix<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Telephony<\/a><\/td>\r\nTelevisuality<\/a><\/td>\r\nThings<\/a><\/td>\r\nThrills<\/a><\/td>\r\nUniversalism<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

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Archive<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\r\n

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In the film archives of a single German film company, Ufa for example, there are hundreds of thousands of meters of unused film material. They are images of life, documents of human existence, of animals, plants, documentary images of landscapes, buildings and cities, and objects of every kind; images of the conventions and customs of people from every nation, of natural disasters, accidents, work processes, of everyday events, not staged, but rather shown as this everyday life appears before the cameraman\u2019s lens. Filmic documents that encompass the entire life of contemporary people. This indescribable wealth of raw material for Kulturfilms remains largely untapped. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Albrecht Viktor Blum, Documentary and Artistic Film (1929), no. 45<\/span><\/p>\r\n