[HN Gopher] Lost film of life in Brazil's Amazon 100 years ago r...
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Lost film of life in Brazil's Amazon 100 years ago resurfaces
Author : telesilla
Score : 142 points
Date : 2023-10-07 23:21 UTC (23 hours ago)
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| contingencies wrote:
| Similarly I found what was perhaps first film ever shot in China
| in the library of London's School of Oriental and African Studies
| (SOAS) back in around 2010. Can't recall the precise format but
| it was a situation akin to they didn't have a player for the film
| format and the film itself had not been retrieved from storage
| for many decades. The story about how it came to be shot was
| quite interesting, one of the French colonial administrators
| assigned to the Yunnan trading post was personal friends with the
| Lumiere brothers and had been given a camera and film to "go
| shoot some stuff". Upon further research the French family
| thereof had, in the late 20th century, tried to monetize the
| thing and had it buried. The SOAS copy, being free of their
| latter-day copyright bullshit, was the sole free copy outside of
| their grasp. I was able to come back some months later, after the
| SOAS alumni volunteered funded to have it digitized, to a
| _champagne soiree_ viewing - we had, after all, beaten the frogs.
| luispauloml wrote:
| Where can I see this film? Or read more about this?
| beerdoggie wrote:
| Hopefully it gets digitized and shared with the world!
| botanical wrote:
| And hopefully with a Creative Commons licence. Too much stuff
| gets digitised and put under a "All rights reserved" paywall
| gate.
| bdowling wrote:
| The article says they're doing "showings" of the film, which
| makes me think that they don't want it digitized, probably
| because the copyright is expired.
|
| If they control all the copies, then they can charge people to
| watch it, even if the copyright is expired. If a copy leaks,
| though, then that revenue stream will dry up overnight.
| stavros wrote:
| Still, film disintegrates, so I would hope they digitize it
| for archival, at least.
| lsde wrote:
| The film has been digitized by us (Narodni filmovy archiv)
| to make screening DCP for the Pordenone Silent Film
| Festival, where the film will be unveiled.
|
| The raw scans were also provided to our counterparts in
| Cinemateca Brasiliera who are now in charge to decide about
| the film's fate. I surely hope they will make it accessible
| under a non-permissible license.
| stavros wrote:
| Ah, that's good to know, thank you!
| justinclift wrote:
| What's a "non-permissible license"?
| lucasfcosta wrote:
| It's awesome to have people involved with this work here.
|
| I home Cinemateca Brasileira will decide to screen it.
| Unfortunately, Brazilian culture doesn't get a lot of
| attention in Brazil.
|
| It seems like the rest of the world cares more about our
| history than we do.
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| userbinator wrote:
| It says a lot about the influence of marketing and branding, that
| upon seeing the word "Amazon", what immediately came to mind was
| something other than what's described in this article.
|
| Maybe in another century, this might make the news: Lost film of
| life in Bezos' Amazon 100 years ago resurfaces.
| drowsspa wrote:
| "Brazil" is the word right before it...
| whycome wrote:
| https://www.amazon.com.br/
| userbinator wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amazon_locations#Brazi.
| ..
| accrual wrote:
| I also had another interpretation and thought the title meant a
| literal film of life, like a microbial bio film. Time to get
| some sleep!
| pentagrama wrote:
| It reminded me the movie Embrace of the Serpent.
|
| > the film follows two journeys made thirty years apart by the
| indigenous shaman Karamakate in the Colombian Amazonian jungle,
| one with Theo, a German ethnographer, and the other with Evan, an
| American botanist, both of whom are searching for the rare plant
| yakruna. It was inspired by the travel diaries of Theodor Koch-
| Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes, and dedicated to lost
| Amazonian cultures.
|
| Highly recommend
|
| Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace_of_the_Serpent
|
| Trailer: https://youtu.be/4ff7TcnqHUc
| echelon_musk wrote:
| Note that the parent's description refers to the film of 2015
| and not the film of 1918 in TFA.
|
| I was confused for a moment until I remembered that Schultes'
| trip took place in the 1940s.
| camillomiller wrote:
| I wanna spend a minute to say that this is an amazing article. It
| has all the information and details one needs, it tells a
| compelling story, and it's well balanced in describing political
| and social implications. This is the average quality of most
| stuff you read on good mainstream media, but someone very famous
| wants you to think otherwise. End of the quiet rant
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