Retelling the Past with Broadcast Archives: Context Makes Sense

Abstract

<span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: xx-small;"><p>The publication of audiovisual archives asks many questions about the meaning of documents. Publishing a video archive on a Web site, for example, is a re-contextualisation. The loss of cultural references needed to understand a document implies the necessity to recontextualise documents. This means adding elements, such as titles, descriptions and other information. This paper analyzes the case of a video published by Ina on its Web <span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: xx-small;">platform </span></p><p> </p></span></span></span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #0000ff; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #0000ff; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #0000ff; font-size: xx-small;">Ina.fr </span></span></span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: xx-small;">and its Blog, the </span></span></span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #00009a; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #00009a; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #00009a; font-size: xx-small;">Blognote</span></span></span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: xx-small;">. The video, dated 1st January 1947, is a report envisioning a future when surveillance cameras would be installed on the streets in Paris. These two instances of publication offer two different views on the editorialization of video archives.</span></span><p> </p></span><p> </p>