1/15 Thursday, 21 June 2007 Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Reconstructing Film Culture: Lost Films and Collaboration on the Web Berlin KNOWLEDGE BY NETWORKING Digitising Culture in Germany and Europe June 21, 2007

2/15 Thursday, 21 June 2007 Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen Problem: about 80% of silent films are lost also important talkies are lost Problem that concerns each country more or less

3/15 Thursday, 21 June 2007 Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen Unidentified films

4/15 Thursday, 21 June 2007 Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen Creating context

5/15 Thursday, 21 June 2007 Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen One example: „THE CASE OF LENA SMITH“ Found materials -China: fragment of 100 meter -Japan: description of the complete film -USA: production documents, photos -USA II: set designs, private collections -Austria: censorship card -Germany: censorship card -Austria: book publication

6/15 Thursday, 21 June 2007 Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen One example: „METROPOLIS“ Keyword in the original composition Title card from the censorship list Still from a lost sequence Original screenplay

7/15 Thursday, 21 June 2007 Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen Preliminary film list about 50 films

8/15 Thursday, 21 June 2007 Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen Conclusion: Losing knowledge about symbolic universe represented both by documentaries and feature films: Lack of visual culture and Oral and Intangible Heritage (gesture, body language) General problem: A tentency to focus on the surviving heritage, to prioritise the visible in favour of the invisible METROPOLIS Cityscape (Erich Kettelhut); Babel tower

9/15 Thursday, 21 June 2007 Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen For example: Body language of Asta Nielsen Das Mädchen ohne Vaterland, D 1912 Zapatas Bande, D 1913/14 At least 8 Asta Nielson films are presumed to be lost…

10/15 Thursday, 21 June 2007 Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen 1.Solution: Displaying surrogates from the archives Scripts Advertising materials Film journals RONNY D 1931 R: Reinhold Schünzel

11/15 Thursday, 21 June 2007 Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen Problem : Documents are scattered here and there

12/15 Thursday, 21 June 2007 Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen Solution: Collaboration on the web (webbased interface) Content Annotations

13/15 Thursday, 21 June 2007 Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen Project LOST FILMS Centre national de la cinématographie funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation Start: June 2007 Duration: 18 months

14/15 Thursday, 21 June 2007 Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen Problem of collaborative systems: Focussing on technology Technocratic understanding of social processes Example: Question of recognition in collaborative systems

15/15 Thursday, 21 June 2007 Werner Sudendorf, Jürgen Keiper Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen General perspective: - Semantic networks - CIDOC CRM - Webservices for authority files, vocabularies - Collaboration with shared content - Collaboration in software development - Building expert communities Perspective of LOST FILMS: Expert communities Search, Identification, collaborative Reconstruction of further films Collaborative software development (open source)