Category Archive for: ‘Issue 1 – Classics & Re-runs’

It would be a mistake to believe that all the categories of representational documents [1] which come to the aid of History have a place in Museums and Libraries. Unlike medallions, illuminated pottery, sculpture, etc., which are collected and classified, photography, for example, has no special department. To speak the truth, the documents it provides are rarely of a clearly historical …

Introduction by Leonie Naughton Hertha Thiele was born in Leipzig in 1908, and died 5 August 1984. She was an acclaimed stage actor long before she made her screen debut in 1931 when she played the lead role in the film, Mädchen in Uniform. Set in a Prussian boarding school for girls, the film was directed by Leontine Sagan and included an …

This piece has an interesting cultural history. It was originally published in Le Figaro on 25 March 1898 and reprinted later that year as a twelve-page pamphlet, Une nouvelle source de l’histoire: création d’un dépôt de cinématographie historique . Then it appears to have been forgotten for sixty-five years – or, at least, I cannot find it mentioned in the books I have at …