Histoires d'appareils / Tales from the Vaults

La technologie du cinéma à travers les années et les continents (book in French and English)

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Edited by Louis Pelletier and Rachael Stoeltje

Type

Studies

Subject

History of Cinema

Keywords

technique, camera, history of cinema

Publishing date

2023

Publisher

FIAF

Language

French and English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 327 pages
7 ½ x 9 ½ inches (19 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-906973-78-3

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Book Presentation:
Film Technology over the Years and across Continents.

Cinema’s multiple lives as an art, a form of entertainment, an industry, or a tool for education and propaganda all share one thing: they rely on machines and technical objects. For more than a century, this essential fact has shaped the life cycle of moving images, from their production and exhibition to their eventual preservation. The tales told by these pieces of cinemachinery, from the iconic to the seemingly mundane, are consequently apt to reveal how cinema developed in often widely different ways around the globe. Yet, these tales also frequently enable us to conceive film histories that go beyond individual inventors and film auteurs, or the specificities of national cinemas, by making visible the international networks through which film technology was conceived, circulated, used, and constantly adapted to emerging practices.

Tales from the Vaults: Film Technology over the Years and across Continents collects 100 stories of boundless creativity and ingenuity. Submitted by the archives and film preservationists who now care for this long-neglected heritage alongside historians, these tales cover a wide range of pre-cinema, cinema, video, and digital devices developed since the 18th century, and used all around the world by filmmakers, showmen and women, hobbyists, and archivists.

Louis Pelletier is researcher at Cinémathèque québécoise and Université de Montréal, where he also teaches film history and film preservation.

Rachael Stoeltje is the Founding Director of the Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive and the President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). She previously served on the FIAF Executive Committee and teaches moving image preservation at Indiana University.

See the publisher website: FIAF