Iluminace, 2005 (vol. 17), issue 3
Articles
From Grains to Pixels: Digital Technology and the Film Archive
Giovanna Fossati
Iluminace 2005, 17(3):5-19 
The digital restoration process and an overview of the current state of the art in hardware and software. Metadata. Restoration of information missing on emulsion due to mechanical and chemical damage. Repair of defects caused by improper copying. Restoration of original colours. Preservation of digital information.
Muzeum versus Market
Alexander Horwath
Iluminace 2005, 17(3):21-25
The paper is dedicated to the politics of film archives and museums and was presented during the "Open Forum" of the 61st FIAF Congress in Ljublani in June 2005.
Poetry of Destruction: The Typology. Periodization and Reflections of the Destruction of Filmic Moving Images
Anna Batistová
Iluminace 2005, 17(3):27-46
The study is devoted to the problems of audiovisual archiving and the issues of film material, its destruction and self-destruction.
"Birth" of Cinema History: Coming of Film Sound and Media Inventing their Own Past
Petr Szczepanik
Iluminace 2005, 17(3):47-81
The study examines the issue of the film medium with the advent of standardized synchronous sound in the 1920s-1930s and the corresponding processes in the mass media of the time. The author traces the origins of national film archives and film historiography and pays special attention to the emergence of sound in Czech cinema.
Contemporary Cinephile: Film Collecting in the Post-Video Era
Barbara Klinger
Iluminace 2005, 17(3):83-103
The study examines the issues of contemporary film collecting and its implications for the domestic reception of films.
Old Movies, New Stories: Contextualization and Cultural Mediation of Hollywood Films on DVD
Pavel Skopal
Iluminace 2005, 17(3):105-126
The study focuses on special editions of archival films on digital discs and the bonus materials that are a standard part of DVDs. The author discusses the various functions of bonus features and compares the importance of DVDs with bonus material to films on videotape.
Critical Edition of Films on Digital Formats
Natascha Drubek, Nikolaj Izvolov
Iluminace 2005, 17(3):127-138
The article discusses the current method of releasing films on DVD and proposes a general-purpose system of critical film release that would include materials not only for laymen but also for professionals, including film archaeography and textual studies, documents related to the history of filmmaking, biographies and filmographies.
Interviews
Each New Generation of Media demands a New Resolution of their Preservation. An Interview with Jean-Michel Rodes
Luděk Janda
Iluminace 2005, 17(3):139-144
Interview with Jean-Michel Rodes, Head of the Projects and Methods Department of the National Institute of Audiovisual (France), Director of the French Inateca, historian.
Global Hollywood and Home Theater. Methodological Challenges of Reception Studies. An Interview with Barbara Klinger
Pavel Skopal
Iluminace 2005, 17(3):145-158
An interview with American film historian Barbara Klinger and new reproduction technologies and audience relations to them, research projects in reception studies, the commercial success of the DVD format and repeat viewing, cinephilia, fans, etc.
Horizon
French Inathèque
Luděk Janda
Iluminace 2005, 17(3):159-169
Detailed information about the origin, activities and technical equipment of French Inateca.
Quality Film Critics versus Czech Dream
Petr Šafařík
Iluminace 2005, 17(3):170-179
A summary of the press response to the documentary film Czech Dream, an assessment of the approach and level of criticism. Controversy with individual opinions.
What is the (Theory of) Photography?
Tomáš Dvořák
Iluminace 2005, 17(3):180-183
Review of the publication Co je to fotografie?