Iluminace, 1994 (vol. 6), issue 2

The oldest film legislation

Srđan Knežević

Iluminace 1994, 6(2):83-106  

A complete edition of the oldest film legislation in force in the Czech lands.

Workers and officials in German feature films

Jiří Pokorný

Iluminace 1994, 6(2):107-108  

Book review – Holger Schetter: Workers and Employees in Film. The portrayal of the social situation of workers and employees in German feature films from 1918 to 1939 (Bielefeld 1992)

Ruští emigranti v německém filmu

Petr Mareš

Iluminace 1994, 6(2):108-109  

Review of the study – Alexander Schwarz: Russian emigrants in German film. Case studies on Iosif Ermol'ev and Ivan Mozžuchin.

The History of the Havel Family

Pavel Zeman

Iluminace 1994, 6(2):110-111  

Book review – Václav M. Havel: My Memories (Prague 1993).

Vladimír Bor on his life and work

Tomáš Tomáš

Iluminace 1994, 6(2):111-113  

Book review – Vladimír Bor: Music – Film – Criticism (Prague 1990).

Articles

Sound and epistemology in film

Edward Branigan

Iluminace 1994, 6(2):5-22  

A study of sound and its role in the process of perceiving a film work.

Film activities of Ukrainian emigrants in the Czech lands

Bohdan Zilynskyj

Iluminace 1994, 6(2):23-36  

A study of the film activities of Ukrainian emigrants in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s–1940s The author's attention is drawn in particular to Borys Suchoručko-Choslovskyj, who founded the film company Merkurfilm and was responsible for the import and export of films between Ukraine and Czechoslovakia. After 1945, Suchoručko was forcibly deported back to the USSR and spent ten years in Stalinist concentration camps for his significant activities in the interwar period.

Contemporary Czech feature films: under the dictates of money

Jan Lukeš

Iluminace 1994, 6(2):37-77  

A study of the situation of Czech cinema after the end of the state monopoly. Using specific films, the author demonstrates how contemporary film production is subject to market forces.

Editions and Materials

The first legislation governing cinematography in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia (1896–1918).

Srđan Knežević

Iluminace 1994, 6(2):79-82  

Introductory study to the edition of the oldest legal norms for cinematography valid in the Czech lands.

Appendix

Applicants for the first cinema licenses in Bohemia (1896–1910)

Srđan Knežević

Iluminace 1994, 6(2):119-126  

List of applicants for cinema licenses, compiled on the basis of filing records of the Czech Governor's Office between 1896 and 1910.