Iluminace, 2009 (vol. 21), issue 3
Editorial
Film performances in and outside the cinema
Anna Batistová
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):41-42 
A brief introduction to the block of articles on the topic of Film performances in the cinema and beyond. Brief characteristics of the individual contributions.
Theme Articles
Outside the Space of FIlm Theater. Cinema in the Open Air
Elena Mosconi, Maria Francesca Pireddda
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):43-55
The authors deal with open-air film screenings in Italy in the first half of the 20th century. The paper is part of the project "Film Technique. Technique in Film" and was published in one of ten publications on the customs and environments associated with film screenings. The authors draw on an analysis of the exhibition and promotional strategies, locations of occurrence, and the particular form of parks, courtyards, cafés, gardens, and arenas that hosted film screenings. The authors conclude that it is the places least similar in structure to the traditional cinema that offer the strongest examples of established behaviours associated with attending...
Conquesting "the Goldmines". The Alteration of the Cinema Licenses Owners in Brno, 1920-1926
Lukáš Skupa
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):57-70
The author deals with the institutional background of cinemas in interwar Czechoslovakia. A case study of Brno cinemas examines the changes in the licensing of cinema performances in the 1920s. In doing so, it traces the economic and cultural motivations for the transformation and evaluates its success.
Films out of Necessity. The Means of Framing Film Screenings and Spectatorial Experiences in the Stalinist Era
Pavel Skopal
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):71-92
The author focuses on the practice of showing older Czech films newly equipped with an introductory text and the so-called extended programmes, i.e. attaching medium-length documentaries to feature films in the early 1950s. These practices, he argues, demonstrate the contradiction between two ways of understanding cinema in post-war cultural policy - cinema as a place of education or upbringing and cinema as a place of entertainment.
Screenings of Art House Films in Multiplexes. Notes on the Programs of Palace Cinemas Nový Smíchov and Village Cinemas Anděl
Jan Hanzlík
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):93-105
The author analyses the programme offer of two Prague multiplexes in 2008 and focuses on the films offered by these cinemas as "art films". In his contribution, the author confirms some of the ideas and assumptions we have about this space and refutes others.
Articles
Prague Ain't No Minsk. Selecting Hollywood Films for Czechoslovakia, 1945-1946
Jindřiška Bláhová
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):5-40
The study deals with the issue of the selection of Hollywood films for the Czechoslovak market by the MPEA (Motion Picture Export Association) in the post-war period of 1945 and 1946. It perceives the economic dimension of film selection as dominant and superior to the not insignificant ideological dimension. The text draws on State Department documents, MPEA memoranda, OWI documents, Czechoslovak State Department and Ministry of Information documents, and a list of 140 Hollywood MPEA features compiled under a contract between the MPEA and Czechoslovakia on behalf of the Czechoslovak Film Society (Čefis). The study focuses on three main areas: general...
Editions and Materials
This Film is Dangerous
Anna Batistová
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):118-120
This short article introduces the fire hazards in places where cinematographic material is handled in connection with the use of a cellulose nitrate substrate. This substrate for cinematographic film was used in the world until the end of the 1950s, in our country until 1961. It can still be found in audiovisual archives around the world today. Since 1945, the Film Technical Service (FITES) has been responsible for fire prevention.
Flammable film
Anna Batistová
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):121-128
The text was intended for projectionists in post-war Czechoslovakia and was intended to inform them about the dangers of fire in cinemas and how to prevent it.
Interviews
Screenings by the Kludsky Family of Traveling Exhibitors and Village Screenings in the German Protectorate. Interview with Edita Štanclová-Kludská
Pavel Skopal
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):107-111
An interview with Edita Štanclova-Kludská offers an insight into the practice of touring film screenings in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Cinema Technology. Technology in Film. Interview with Francesco Casetti
Anna Batistová
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):112-117
The interview with Italian film critic and theorist Francesco Casetti is dedicated to the project "Technique of Film. Technique in Film" and informs about Casetti's latest publication, which explores the processes by which film shapes the view of the world around us.
Horizon
German Guides to Film Theory (Thomas Elsaesser - Malte Hagener: Filmtheorie zur Einführung; Jürgen Felix /ed./: Moderne Film Theorie; Stefan Orth - Michael Staiger - Joachim Valentin /eds./: Dogville - Godville. Methodische Zugänge zu einem Film Lars von Triers)
Petr Mareš
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):134-141
Review of three theoretical German film publications - Filmtheorie zur Einführung; Moderne Film Theorie and Dogville - Godville. Methodische Zugänge zu einem Film Lars von Triers
Looking for the Place for Diegesis (Montage AV 2/2007)
Petr Mareš
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):142-144
The origin and emergence of the term "diegesis" and an evaluation of the thematic issue of the German journal Montage AV that was devoted to diegesis.
The roots of media, from film to virtual reality
Michal Pacvoň
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):145-148
The author notes the current trend of watching films on a computer while riding a train, changing the relationship between sight and speed that was at the birth of cinema. Also important is the change from single-projector projection, where one film is watched by a larger number of people, to "cinema-car" where a larger number of "projectors" broadcast a number of films to the same number of people. The paper analyses the connection of cinema with the phenomenon of travel, examining all the transformations and the path that led to them.
70mm Film Festival: Ves(mír) je náš svět
Radomír D. Kokeš, Jakub Klíma
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):149-154
The authors report on various film formats, the origins of 70mm film stock, Todd-AO filming and its marketing, widescreen cinemas in Czechoslovakia, European 70mm film stock shows and the Krnov festival.
Ad Fontes
Lucernafilm s. r. o. (1912-1955)
Jindřich Schwippel, Tomáš Lachman
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):129-131
History and information about the activities of the film production company Lucernafilm s. r. o. in the years 1912-1955.
Provincial Association of Cinematographers in Bohemia (1913-1942)
Tomáš Lachman
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):132-133
History and information about the activities of the Provincial Association of Cinematographers in Bohemia in 1913-1942.
Appendix
Film Festival of the Working People and Its Function in the Cultural Politics of the Czechoslovak Communist Regime, 1948-1989
Luděk Havel
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):155-159
The article presents a forthcoming dissertation on the Workers' Film Festival, its history and significance for the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1948-1989.
Production and Use of Cinema Projection Technology in the Czech lands, 1918-1945
Anna Batistová
Iluminace 2009, 21(3):160-163
Information about the postdoctoral research project, whose task is to elaborate the history of the production of cinematographic projection technology in the Czech lands between 1918-1945. The main focus of the work will be on the background provided to this industry by the interwar republic and later the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the relationships between individual manufacturers, their suppliers and customers, and the design of domestic products and their specifics.