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Reusable and Nonreusable Films: From Ballistic Films to the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica (2021)

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The film Fracture Phenomena in Glass is a noteworthy case of a film reuse: it was published in the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica (EC) in 1976, bearing the signature E 2355. In this instance, surprisingly, the Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Institute for Scientific Film [IWF]), which produced, edited, distributed, and archived the EC films, reused ballistic film recordings from World War II. Produced at the Ballistic Institute of the Berlin-Gatow Air War Academy in 1942–1943 under the direction of Hubert Schardin, they were first published in 1944 as C 433 by the National Socialist predecessor institution, the Reich Institute for Film and Images in Science and the Classroom (Reichsanstalt für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht [RWU]). This reuse suggests that at least some of the EC films bear witness to telling discrepancies in political, historical, and epistemological classification within a distinctive worldwide project of postwar visual film research. This essay considers the controversial role of the encyclopedist Gotthard Wolf and the institutional history of the RWU/IWF by looking at examples of the reuse—or nonreuse—of ballistic films and concepts.

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Article Anja Sattelmacher; Mario Schulze; Sarine Waltenspül (2021) Introduction: Reusing Research Film and the Institute for Scientific Film. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 291-298). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Schulze, Mario
Sattelmacher, Anja
Cioci, Vincenzo
Bini, Elisabetta
Shahare, Mahendra
Vezzosi, Elisabetta
Concepts
Science and war; science and the military
Science and film
Science and society
World War II
Visual representation; visual communication
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Germany
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Leningrad (Soviet Union)
Naples (Italy)
United States
Italy
Institutions
Société de Statistique de Paris
Stazione Zoologica di Napoli
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