Iluminace, 2007 (vol. 19), issue 3
Editorial
Popular music, recording industry and film
Petr Szczepanik
Iluminace 2007, 19(3):33-34 
The introduction to the block of articles dedicated to popular music in film formulates the main idea of the topic and provides an overview of the aspects of the individual contributions and the content of the sections.
Theme Articles
Cinema and Popular Song: The Lost Tradition
Rick Altman
Iluminace 2007, 19(3):35-44
The translation of the study by the world's leading film sound historian Rick Altman sheds light on the structural and reception differences between the popular song in a film performance and "classical" film music.
Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music
Jeff Smith
Iluminace 2007, 19(3):45-94
The author places the investigated topic of the relationship between popular song, film and the recording industry in the context of economic relations. At the same time, it sets itself against traditional concepts of "inaudible" film music and characterizes the popular song as the main content link between film and competing media. It deals with the creation of sound recordings, soundtracks and gramophone branches of film studios.
Film and Recording Industry: The Case of Ultraphon
Petr Szczepanik
Iluminace 2007, 19(3):95-151
A study of the synergy between Czech film and the recording industry of the 1930s. The author uses sources from the fund of Andreas Struve, a shareholder of the K´chenmeister concern, which originally included the Czech Ultraphon, and from the archives of its successor company Supraphon Music. The author explores the relationships between the gramophone, radio, film and film song and the local manifestations of the global concentration of the media industry in the 1930s.
Role of Popular Music in the Pre-War Dramaturgy of Radiojournal
Petr Macek
Iluminace 2007, 19(3):153-161
The study discusses the debates surrounding so-called light music in the pre-war dramaturgy of the Radiojournal, bringing into the issue under investigation the perspective of a third key medium, which, unlike film and the gramophone, was based on a state-sponsored position as a disseminator of national culture. The article includes an analysis of specific professional terminology.
Pythagoras's Veil
Tomáš Dvořák
Iluminace 2007, 19(3):163-176
The author reflects on more general questions of auditory metaphors in the history of Western thought and the theory of film sound.
Articles
Tartu School: From Modelling Systems to Artistic Texts
Peter Michalovič
Iluminace 2007, 19(3):5-32
The Tartu School represents a significant stage in the development of structural-semiotic research. The authors focus primarily on its founder, Jurij Mihajlovic Lotman, and cite his collaborators for selected problems.
Editions and Materials
Discography of Film Music on the Records of Czech Ultraphon (1929-1946)
Gabriel Gössel
Iluminace 2007, 19(3):177-210
The detailed discography includes melodies from Czech films from 1930-1946, melodies from foreign films produced by Czech Ultraphon in the period 1929-1945 and an overview of songs from unrealized films from 1930-1939.
Horizon
Digital Library of National Film Archive
Pavla Janásková
Iluminace 2007, 19(3):217-224
Detailed information about the National Film Archive (NFA) library project to preserve endangered documents, their accessibility on new media and the NFA digital library, accompanied by illustrative examples of documents and an overview of reformatted periodical titles. The individual parts of the paper are devoted to the procedures and implementation in document rescue, its financing, the content of the digital library and its accessibility.
Ad Fontes
Ad Fontes or From Newly Released Records
Tomáš Lachman
Iluminace 2007, 19(3):211-212
Presentation of the content of the new section Ad Fontes and its objectives. The contents of the film archival collection of the National Film Archive. The possibilities of using these primary documents for study and research.
Koruna-film, spol. s r. o. (1929/1935-1950)
Tomáš Lachman
Iluminace 2007, 19(3):213-214
Description of the documentation of the Koruna-film film rental and sales company and its activities in 1929 and 1935-1950.
Moldavia-Film a. s. (1937-1948)
Tomáš Lachman
Iluminace 2007, 19(3):215-216
Description of the founding of Moldavia-Film a. s. in 1937, its predecessor and subsequent companies, subject of activity, owners and shareholders, preserved documents about the company.
Appendix
Gustav Machatý in the Context of Czech and International Cinema
Jiří Horníček
Iluminace 2007, 19(3):227-229
The importance of Gustav Machatý for Czech and world cinema, an overview of works from recent years that dealt with his work. Presentation of the content of the planned publication on Machatý's work. Sources of basic research, the resulting structure of the study.
Horizons and Ruins. Visible and Invisible in the Early Modern Visual Culture
Václav Hájek
Iluminace 2007, 19(3):230-234
A detailed description of a dissertation dealing with one specific pictorial motif from the early 19th century that represents and problematizes the question of early modern visual culture. The analysis of the pictorial material is represented by a group of works by Caspar David Friedrich using the method of iconography or iconology. Some traditional literary motifs are also followed (e.g. the motif of the ruin and the horizon).