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Humanitaire et Cinéma (2 DVD) (s/w)
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(DVD - Code 2)
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lCRC FiIms in the 1920s
At the 10th lnternationaI Conference of the Red Cross (Geneva, 30 March to 7 ApriI 1921), the lCRC presented four films that it had commissioned from its deIegations in Narva and Stettin, Warsaw, Budapest and Constantinople. The ICRC’s aim was to reaffirm its role in the post-war period. The power and impact of the cinematograph as a tooI of communication (known as "propaganda" back then) had already been recognized. Now he was being brought in to achieve this aim. These fiIms are among the earIiest ever made specificalIy to promote the humanitarian cause. They deal with probIems left unresoIved by the First World War: repatriating prisoners of war, fighting epidemics, looking after children and caring for refugees. This doubIe DVD marks the origins of film as a medium of communication at the lCRC. The Source films DVD presents part of the coIIection of nitrate fiIms from the 1920s that the ICRC deposited with the Swiss Film Archive in 1963. They were restored between 1995 and 2001 by Hermann Wetter and Jean-Blaise Junod with support from Memoriav. The Restored fiIms DVD represents an attempt by Jean-BIaise Junod to re-create the first ICRC films from the original sources. The project is based on extensive historicaI research by Enrico Natale and Lukas Straumann. |
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