Compilation movie
A compilation film is a film assembled from existing (archive) material.
In the documentary compilation film, the material to convey and clarify an intended statement by the author (filmmaker) is selected, edited and mostly also commented on. The respective compilation is deliberately chosen and the form of montage is mostly shaped by artistic and argumentative premises. Interviews, game scenes and other newly filmed material can be used to supplement this.
Compilation films were produced as propaganda films as early as the First World War . The most important group among the compilation films today are documentaries of contemporary history .
But there is also the tradition of the avant-garde or experimental compilation film. In the experimental compilation film, scrap material, found footage or the like is often incorporated in addition to the traditional materials from films already shown . If the found, appropriated material dominates, one usually speaks of found footage films . In contrast to the classic compilation film, these focus more on the formal-aesthetic state of the found material and less on its content-related aspects. Most of the time, they completely remove the material from its original context and reinterpret it through assembly.
There is also the nostalgic compilation film, which presents new scenes from old feature films , for example . In this, passages from other films are put together and usually accompanied by a moderation. The thematic focus can be a film genre (e.g. musical , comedy , horror film ), films by a production studio or an actor. This special form is also called anthology film .
A variant of the compilation feature film is a compilation of short fiction films , episodes from television series or from the so-called serials . In the United States in the 1930s, for example, several episodes were combined from series and used as a feature film (examples include Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers ).
Occasionally, episode films are also referred to as compilation films.
Sample films
Documentary compilation film
- Americas Answer to the Hun ( George Crul , USA 1917)
- The history of the civil war ( Dziga Wertow , USSR 1921/22)
- The fall of the Romanov dynasty ( Esfir thrust , USSR 1927)
- The Great Way ( Esfir Schub , USSR 1927)
- Russia Nikolai II and Leo Tolstoy ( Esfir Schub , USSR 1928)
- World Turning ( Carl Junghans , Germany 1928)
- The World War ( Leo Lasko , Germany 1927/28)
- The Iron Hindenburg in War and Peace ( Johannes Häußler , Germany 1929)
- Germany - my Germany (anonymous, Germany 1932/33)
- Bleeding Germany ( Johannes Häussler , Germany 1933)
- Campaign in Poland ( Fritz Hippler , 1940)
- Baptism of Fire ( Hans Bertram , 1940)
- The Eternal Jew ( Fritz Hippler , 1940)
- Victory in the West ( Svend Noldan , Fritz Brunel , 1941)
- America sees itself (1942)
- The Soviet Paradise (1942)
- Mr Roosevelt Chats (1943)
- In Katyn Forest (1943)
- Nuit et brouillard / Night and Fog ( Alain Resnais , France 1955)
- Mein Kampf ( Erwin Leiser , Sweden 1959)
- La Rabbia - The Wrath ( Pier Paolo Pasolini , Italy 1963)
- Point of order! ( Emile de Antonio , USA 1964)
- Ordinary fascism ( Mikhail Romm , USSR 1965)
- Do you know the country ... A political review ( Joachim Hellwig , GDR 1979)
- The Atomic Café (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty , Pierce Rafferty, USA 1982)
- Fitna ( Geert Wilders , Netherlands, 2008)
Feature film and short film compilations
- The Great Metro Lachparade ( The Big Parade of Comedy , Robert Youngson , USA 1964)
- That's entertainment! ( Jack Haley Jr. , USA 1974)
- Laurel & Hardy - A clumsy man rarely comes alone ( Dance of the Cuckoos , Alan Douglas , USA / France / FRG 1982)
- That's dancing! ( Jack Haley Jr. , USA 1985)
- When love learned to walk ( Michael Strauven , Germany, 1988)
Compilations from TV series episodes
- Star Trek: The Next Generation - Mission Farpoint (1988), Starship Enterprise: The Next Century
- Star Trek: The Next Generation - In Search of New Galaxies (1988), Starship Enterprise: The Next Century
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988), Starship Enterprise: The Next Century
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988), Starship Enterprise: The Next Century
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988), Starship Enterprise: The Next Century
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989), Starship Enterprise: The Next Century
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989), Starship Enterprise: The Next Century
- Buck Rogers (1979), Buck Rogers (TV series)
- Battle Star Galactica (1978), Battle Star Galactica
- Mission Galactica: Assault of the Cylons (1979), Battlestar Galactica
- The End of an Odyssey (1980), Battle Star Galactica
- The Incredible Hulk (1979), Hulk (TV Series)
- Spider-Man the Spider-Man (1979), The Amazing Spider-Man (TV series)
- Spider-Man Strikes Back (1980), The Amazing Spider-Man (TV series)
- Spider-Man vs. the Yellow Dragon (1980), The Amazing Spider-Man (TV series)
- 80,000 Miles Through Space (1973), UFO (TV series)
- Space Command SHADO (1974), UFO (TV Series)
- Invasion: UFO (1980), UFO (TV Series)
- Spazio: 1999, (1978), moon base Alpha 1
- Alien Attack (1979), Moon Base Alpha 1
- Black Sun - The Death Planet Attacks (1982), Moon Base Alpha 1
- Cosmic Princess (1982), Moon Base Alpha 1
- Attack on Alpha 1 (1978), Moon Base Alpha 1
- Raiders from Outer Space (1981), Time Tunnel
- Aliens from Another Planet (1981), Time Tunnel
- Old Legends never die (1981), Time Tunnel
- Revenge of the Gods (1981), Time Tunnel
- Kill or be killed (1981), Time Tunnel
- Raumpatrouille Orion - Fall back into the cinema (2003), Raumpatrouille - The fantastic adventures of the Orion spaceship
- Thunderbirds to the Rescue (1980), Thunderbirds
- Thunderbirds in Outer Space (1981), Thunderbirds
- Countdown to Disaster (1982), Thunderbirds
- Captain Scarlet vs. the Mysterons (1980), Captain Scarlet and Revenge of the Mysterons
- Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars (1981), Captain Scarlet and the Revenge of the Mysterons
- The Incredible Voyage of Stingray (1980), Kommando Stingray
- Invaders of the Deep (1981), Stingray Command
- The Amazing Adventures of Joe 90 (1981), Joe 90
- Flash (1990), Flash - The Red Lightning
- Flash II - The Tricker's Revenge (1991), Flash - The Red Lightning
- Flash III - Deadly Nightshade (1991), Flash - The Red Lightning
- Emma Peel: My greatest adventures with John Steed (1970), with umbrella, charm and melon
- War of the Worlds: The Invasion (1988), War of the Worlds (TV series)
- War of the Worlds: The Offensive (1988), War of the Worlds (TV series)
- War of the Worlds: The Apocalypse (1988), War of the Worlds (TV series)
- The Time Leap (1989), Back to the Past
- The Jump in Time 2 - The Return (1991), Back to the Past
- Airwolf - An Unbeatable Weapon (1987), Airwolf
- Airwolf - Mission Airwolf (1987), Airwolf
- Airwolf: The Fight (1987), Airwolf
- Airwolf - A New Friend (1987), Airwolf
- Airwolf - Die Wunderwaffe (1987), Airwolf
- Airwolf - For Life and Death (1987), Airwolf
- Airwolf - Airwolf in Action (1987), Airwolf
- Airwolf Death from the East (1988), Airwolf
- Knight Rider (1985), Knight Rider
- Knight Rider 2 (1986), Knight Rider
- Knight Rider (1987), Knight Rider
See also
literature
- Hilmar Hoffmann: And the flag leads us into eternity. Propaganda in Nazi films. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 1988, ISBN 3-596-24404-8 .
- Jay Leyda: Films Beget Films: A Study of the Compilation Film. Hill and Wang, New York 1971, ISBN 0-8090-1355-X .
- Jay Leyda: Films from Films: A Study of Compilation Films. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1967. The book was first published in East Berlin, where Leyda worked in the 1960s.
- Patrik Sjöberg: The World in Pieces: A Study of Compilation Film. Dissertation Stockholm University. Aura förlag, Stockholm 2001, ISBN 91-628-5045-8 .
- Michael Zryd: Found footage film as a discursive media history. Assembly AV 11/1/2002
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Jürgen Wulff: Compilation film I. Lexicon of Filmbegriffe, University of Kiel , February 7, 2012, accessed on June 4, 2019 .
- ^ Ansgar Schlichter, Philipp Brunner: Found Footage Film. Lexicon of Film Terms, University of Kiel , October 13, 2012, accessed on June 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Hans Jürgen Wulff: Compilation Film II. Lexicon of Filmbegriffe, University of Kiel , October 13, 2012, accessed on June 4, 2019 .
- ↑ anthology film. In: Lexicon of film terms. Bender Verlag, accessed on September 8, 2010 .
Web links
- Hilmar Hoffmann, "And the flag leads us into eternity" (complete text of the book)