Article ID: CBB618455905

Introduction: Reusing Research Film and the Institute for Scientific Film (2021)

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This introduction outlines the threefold contribution that this Focus section on research film offers. First, it introduces the vast collection of films from the former Institute for Scientific Film (Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film [IWF]), arguably the most ambitious endeavor ever undertaken to manage the distribution, production, and archiving of research films. At the same time, the institute’s questionable roots in the National Socialist education system and in war research are addressed. Second, the introduction points out that the Focus section enters largely uncharted terrain in the history of research films. Third, it argues that a focus on the multiple reuses of research films, as this section attempts, not only suits the medium specificity of film but helps us to map the aesthetic, intermedial, and cultural-political practices of disseminating knowledge. In this vein, the organizers asked established scholars working on film and science to share with us a short story of a reused research film. Scott Curtis, Vinzenz Hediger, Anja Laukötter, and Hanna Rose Shell responded. Their contributions can be found in the supplementary materials to the online edition.

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Authors & Contributors
Patrick Ellis
Olszynko-Gryn, Jesse
Song, Jinwoong
Schultz-Figueroa, Benjamín Alberto
Stamp, Shelley
Markus Emden
Concepts
Science and film
Science education and teaching
Visual representation; visual communication
Film and media studies
Epistemology
Motion pictures; cinema; movies
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Germany
Institutions
Harvard University
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