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Review of theoretical publications: film studies in the USA and the invention of film studios.

Detailed information about the content and execution of May Revolution 1945, a half-hour amateur film by Czech economist, UN official and occasional filmmaker and photographer Václav Kostelecký, which was acquired by the National Film Archive in 2014.

The article maps the establishment and history of the first film collections on Czech territory from the early 1920s, the founding of the Film Archive in 1943, its basic tasks, evolution and its collection policy. It gives an overview of the development of Czech archiving and the transformations of the Film Archive up to the present day. The author also presents the contents of the following documents from the NFA funds.

Review of the publication Films that Work: Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media.

Individual texts of a series of archival documents on genre variants of Czechoslovak nonfiction film from the period 1935-1940. These include an essay on family (amateur) film, an essay on the introduction of film into schools and education using film, and other texts on industrial and promotional film.

The article traces one of the most interesting chapters of Czech popular science cinema, the period of the 1920s and 1930s, and the activities of the Society for Scientific Cinematography.

The article maps the state's efforts to direct and cultivate cinema in its early days, the introduction of school showings, the establishment of the School Film Board and the work of its three committees.

Meanings of the term film star not only in the narrower sense as a phrase about a particular personality, usually an actor, but also in the broader general sense of a professional non-actor personality with regard to his or her potential stardom. Analysis of hypothetical aspects of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk's film stardom. Media image of Tomáš G. Masaryk, his construction through film, print, literature and photography. President Masaryk in documentary and reportage film, the so-called nonfictional representation. T. G. Masaryk about film.

Report on the progress of the film-digitization project of the National Film Archive. "Digital Restoration of Czech Film Heritage" is a project of the programme CZ 06 "Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Art", supported by the countries of the European Economic Area (EEA) - Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. The project is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The partners of the project are the National Library of Norway and CESNET.

Using questionnaires and interviews the author of the article investigated how visitors perceived and used the space of the cinema café in Pardubice in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The author informs about the contents of the anthology Czech and Polish Documentary in the Era of Europeanization.

Information about the founding and activities of the Club of Film Referees and Publicists in 1930-1933.

The basic ideas and trends of the dissertation on: The beginnings of the institutionalization of school film in Czechoslovakia (1919-1936).

The thematic introduction to the following Memorandum of J. A. Palouš recalls the circumstances of the creation of the document and interesting facts about the personality of Jan Arnold Palouš.

Introduction to the edition of sources concerning the Czechoslovak Society for Scientific Cinematography before 1945.

Information about the founding, operation and importance of the Association of Premier Biographers in the Czechoslovak Republic in 1931-1938.

The article focuses on the issues of industrial authorship in Czech film in the 1950s-1960s, their changes from a centralized production system to group and individual dramaturgy and the transition from extensive to intensive dramaturgy. The purpose of the study is to formulate historically specific concepts of industrial authorship that correspond to the characteristics of the state-socialist mode of production. The author constructs the industrial and social conditions that enabled the emergence of two sub-group styles that profiled themselves through mutual differentiation and competition against the backdrop of the receding socialist realism of the first half of the 1950s. It analyses the influence of Jiří Marek and Eduard Hofman on the reorganisation of film dramaturgy and the formation, composition and activity of dramaturgical production creative groups as well as the parameters of the group styles of the creative groups (TS) of Karel Feix and Bohumil Šmída.

Review of the National Film Archive publication Hoří, má panenko

The article deals with the conditions that determine the form of Czech serial production, based on a thesis that examines production ideologies in detail using semiotic analytical tools. The text combines the author's empirical experience (direct acting participation in the series Proč bychom se netopili) with theoretical insight into the issue.

Report of the international conference Screen Industries in East-Central Europe III: Industrial Authorship, held in Olomouc from 29 November to 1 December 2013.

The study deals with the issues of the understanding of sport, physical education, health science and personal hygiene in Czech culture after 1920. In the field of film production, apart from films about hygiene, healing, health facilities and healthy nutrition, films about being in nature, such as scout and sokol films, as well as all kinds of sports, and also American slapstick films, the essence of which was derived from movement skills (chasing, climbing, jumping and falling), corresponded to the requirements derived from sport. The importance of actors' movement backgrounds for their application in film. Specific examples (Douglas Fairbanks, Vlasta Burian).

Review of the publication Planned cinematography: the Czech film industry 1945 to 1960.

An introduction to the following block of articles devoted to the relationship of Czech film stars, both First Republic and contemporary. It introduces the theory of stars and stardom (star studies) in an attempt to anchor it in contemporary film research and briefly introduces the issues and main ideas of each paper.

The aim of the study is to find out how and in what context the term "science fiction" was used in writing about domestic film production in the 1960s. The author focuses on the analysis of critical responses to selected films from the period in selected Czechoslovak periodicals.

Critique of the focus and content of issue 4/2011 of Illuminace

Reactions of prominent representatives of the foreign film archival community to the controversial dismissal of Vladimír Opěla as director of the National Film Archive. The texts illustrate various aspects of the perception of Opěla's legacy by the international archivist society and at the same time illustrate the professional values of this particular community.

Introduction to the following group of articles on the topic of Media Archaeology in the Postmedia Age. A basic introduction to the concepts, issues and main ideas of each contribution.

The cultural significance of new media and the impact of technological innovations on late 19th century society based on contemporary responses in the press and other contemporary sources.