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Journal Digital Corpus: Swedish Newsreel Transcriptions
Journal of Open Humanities DataThe Journal Digital Corpus (JDC) is a corpus comprising transcriptions of Swedish historical newsreels, primarily sourced from the SF Veckorevy newsreels produced between the early 1910s and the 1960s. JDC includes transcribed speech from 2,553 newsreels
Robert Aspenskog +2 more
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“We Are Not Afraid of Either Ice or Clouds!” The Theme of Conquering the Arctic and the ‘Ocean of Air’ in Soviet Newsreel of the 1930s [PDF]
Художественная культураThe article is devoted to the depiction of the theme of the conquest of the Arctic North and the ‘ocean of air’ in the Soviet newsreels of the 1930s.
Karavaev Dmitry L.
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The retrieval of moving images at Spanish film archives: the oversight of content analysis [PDF]
, 2016 In the field of library and information science, content analysis is a crucial task for an effective retrieval of information by users at an archive. In this research, we analyse the current state of this task and the possibilities of retrieval of film ...
Domínguez-Delgado, Rubén +1 more
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The din of gunfire: Rethinking the role of sound in World War II newsreels
NECSUS, 2014 French film historian Laurent Véray has famously called World War I ‘the first media war of the twentieth century’. Newsreels, which first appeared in 1910, brought the war to movie theaters across Europe and the U.S., screening combat for those on the ...
Masha Shpolberg
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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Shooting the War: The Canadian Army Film Unit in the Second World War [PDF]
, 2012 Very little has been written about the Canadian Army Film Unit (CAFU) since the end of the Second World War, despite Jon Farrell’s postulation. There have been a few short newspaper articles related to teh Film Unit and the D-Day footage that made it ...
Klotz, Sarah
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Ulster versus Éire: Border Narratives in Cinema Newsreels
Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 2023 Ulster versus Éire (1938) was an American March of Time newsreel exploring the complexities of Irish politics on both sides of the border. It came hot on the heels of an earlier film made by the same company, misleadingly titled Irish Republic (1937 ...
Ciara Chambers
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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(Re-)presentation of Everyday Heroes in German Post-war Newsreels (West-East)
Akademisk Kvarter, 2020 In the post-war period, life was challenging and required people to stand up for the community. In the two German states, however, different views of community were propagated by the media.
Dr Sigrun Lehnert
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