Institut für Musik- und Medienwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Georgenstr. 47, 10117, Berlin, Germany.
NTM. 2021 Jun;29(2):143-170. doi: 10.1007/s00048-021-00300-z. Epub 2021 May 12.
Has the history of film digitization ever been incorporated in questions of evidence and knowledge production? The digitization of thousands of films from the former Institute for Scientific Film (IWF) that is currently underway gives an occasion to think about the provenance and reuses of filmic images as well as the ways in which they claim to produce scientific (or in this case, historical) evidence. In the years between 1956 and 1960, the German Social Democrat, historian and filmmaker Friedrich "Fritz" Terveen initiated a film series that used historical found film footage in order to educate university students about contemporary history. The first small series of films was entitled Airship Aviation in Germany which consisted of four short films using found footage of zeppelin flights, of which the earliest images stem from around 1904 and the latest from 1937, the moment of the "Hindenburg disaster." This article explores how Terveen sought to shape the political landscape of history teaching in the new Federal Republic of Germany by first setting up nation-wide visual archives to host historical film documents, and secondly by seeking to improve the political education of a new generation of young Germans with the aid of the moving image.
电影数字化的历史是否曾被纳入证据和知识生产的问题中？目前正在进行的对前科学电影研究所（IWF）的数千部电影进行数字化处理，这让人们有机会思考电影图像的出处和再利用，以及它们声称生产科学（或在这种情况下，历史）证据的方式。在 1956 年至 1960 年间，德国社会民主党人、历史学家和电影制片人弗里德里希·“弗里茨”·特维恩发起了一个电影系列，该系列使用历史发现的电影片段，以便向大学生传授当代历史。第一个小系列电影题为《德国飞艇航空》，由四部短片组成，使用了齐柏林飞艇飞行的发现片段，其中最早的图像可以追溯到 1904 年左右，最晚的则来自 1937 年，即“兴登堡灾难”发生的那一刻。本文探讨了特维恩如何通过首先建立全国性的视觉档案来存放历史电影文献，以及其次通过借助动态影像来改善新一代年轻德国人的政治教育，从而塑造新联邦德国历史教学的政治格局。
