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Abstract William D. Routt has argued (elsewhere in this publication) that, despite a tendency on the part of film analysts to assume the text under discussion is stable and constant, “textual plurality is a condition of the study of film”. Professional audio-visual archivists face this problem daily. It is one aspect of the question of textual integrity – a subject …

[1] Film Restoration and Textual Criticism In 1980 the London Film Festival screened a new print of Napoléon vu par Abel Gance (Abel Gance, 1927), a film originally shot during 1925-1926. The near five-hour version of the film projected that evening had been “restored”, and reconstructed, by Kevin Brownlow, who had been working on the project since 1969. In his research …