Museum film. Development tool and historical source - Detailseite

Both historians of 20th century culture and historians of museums and exhibitions – which played an outstanding role in promoting progress and technology during this period – are increasingly turning to film. Digitization, indexing and the Internet are making moving images more and more accessible as a source, and a fast search on YouTube etc. often provides film documents of museums and exhibitions, which often tell more than the proverbial 1000 words. The Übung focuses on two questions concerning the use and historical role of moving images in and on museums.  On the one hand, there is the propaganda element that film was used for advertising and as a development tool for museums. On the other hand, moving images from exhibitions offer an insight not only into the historical display, but also show the visitor experience and how it may have changed over time. Not film as an object of exhibition, but rather “useful film” and “museum film” as a genre is the subject of discussion as well as practical matters of using moving images as a source, for example by logs and still image series. Examples may comprise a wide spectrum from art and history museums to science and technology museums or World’s fair exhibits.

Charles R. Acland/Haidee Wassons (ed.): Useful Cinema, Durham 2011.

Savoy, Bénédicte: Vom Faustkeil zur Handgranate. Filmpropaganda für die Berliner Museen. 1934-1939, Köln  2014.

Hediger, Vinzenz/Vonderau, Patrick (eds.): Films That Work: Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media, Amsterdam 2009.

Boon, Timothy: Films of Fact. A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television, London 2008.

Jaume Sastre Juan: Pilgrimages to the Museums of the New Age. Appropriating European Industrial Museums in New York City (1927–1937), Science Museum Group Journal 6 (2016), [journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk/browse/issue-06/pilgrimages-to-the-museums-of-the-new-age/]

Haidee Wasson: Museum Movies. The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema, Berkeley 2005.

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