From: Marcel Schwierin (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2008 - 13:54:37 PDT
Jan Leyda asks his readers in his foreword whether they might have an
idea for a good term for these kind of films. Later he mostly uses
the term "compilation", which is now broadly used in the context of
documentaries.
- Marcel
Am Sa 07.06.08 um 23:18 schrieb brett garten:
> Might be wrong but isn't it first used in the book Films Beget
> Films by Jay Leyda
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> Indecisive? Visit the Chauvel Cinematheque Archive at http://
> www.brettgarten.blogspot.com
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> On 08/06/2008, at 7:05 AM, William Wees, Dr. wrote:
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>> Good question. Although I've written extensively on found footage/
>> collage films, I've never discovered the original source of the
>> term. It's a bit like "underground film," for which there are
>> several candidates as originator of the term.
>>
>> --Bill Wees
>>
>> William C. Wees, Editor
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>> From: Experimental Film Discussion List on behalf of Marcel Schwierin
>> Sent: Sat 6/7/2008 12:31 PM
>> To: email suppressed
>> Subject: the term found-footage
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>> Dear Frameworkers,
>>
>> does anybody knows when, where and by whom the term "found-footage"
>> was invented, replacing the older term "collage" for those films?
>>
>> Thanx in advance for any hint,
>>
>> Marcel
>>
>> Marcel Schwierin ::: curator ::: filmmaker
>> Chausseestr. 11 ::: 10115 Berlin ::: Germany
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