Provenance and Early Cinema (Early Cinema in Revie. Bernardi, Usai, William**

Indiana University Press

Provenance and Early CinemaAuthor(s): Joanne Bernardi, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Tami Williams, Joshua Yumibe, Camille Blot-Wellens, Germain Lacasse, Grazia Ingravalle, Ian Christie, Noemi Daugaard, Olivia Kristina Stutz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253052995, 978-0253052995\nSynopsis\nRemnants of early films often have a story to tell. \n\n As material artifacts, these film fragments are central to cinema history, perhaps more than ever in our digital age of easy copying and sharing. If a digital copy is previewed before preservation or is shared with a researcher outside the purview of a film archive, knowledge about how the artifact was collected, circulated, and repurposed threatens to become obscured. When the question of origin is overlooked, the story can be lost. Concerned contributors in Provenance and Early Cinema challenge scholars digging through film archives to ask, \""How did these movi.