Provenance and Early Cinema

"Provenance and Early Cinema turns critical attention back to Domitor's core commitment to crossing institutional divides between university film departments and film archives/museums. This commitment has always informed the work of the organization, but it has only intermittently been an object of inquiry itself."—Kaveh Askari, author of Making Movies into Art: Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to Early Hollywood

"At a critical moment like this for international research, putting our artifacts back into their productive context seems to be an increasingly urgent duty. This volume has the merit of questioning the search for a new point of view, a new way to study film sources: a perspective that is more than ever necessary in the digital age, in which copying and sharing have become lightning-fast operations."—Coraline Refort, Drammaturgia

"The scope of the text is such that a researcher with a pre-existing interest in provenance will undoubtedly find both definition and inspiration here, while scholars from other areas will likely find new and novel ways by which to integrate prove- nance into the frameworks of their research."—James Lewis Shelton, Early Popular Visual Culture