Compilation movie

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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

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

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

  1. Hans Jürgen Wulff: Compilation film I. Lexicon of Filmbegriffe, University of Kiel , February 7, 2012, accessed on June 4, 2019 .
  2. ^ Ansgar Schlichter, Philipp Brunner: Found Footage Film. Lexicon of Film Terms, University of Kiel , October 13, 2012, accessed on June 4, 2019 .
  3. Hans Jürgen Wulff: Compilation Film II. Lexicon of Filmbegriffe, University of Kiel , October 13, 2012, accessed on June 4, 2019 .
  4. anthology film. In: Lexicon of film terms. Bender Verlag, accessed on September 8, 2010 .

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