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Once the moving picture camera is seen simply as a filming apparatus (in the sense of recording something), all filmed documents take on archival value. We should nevertheless distinguish between filming (which is a process) and shooting (which is a procedure). Filming submits to the principle of a reality to be captured, while shooting gives an operator-subject leave to initiate a process of sublimation of the recorded image. Through a discussion of opera broadcasts in movie theatres, the authors examine the means of disseminating this kind of stage performance, for which “virtuoso and fidgety” putters into images superimpose a new layer of meaning onto the discourse of the specifically operatic mise en scène in a manner somewhat like the way film shooting gives rise to the sublimation of filming by transfiguring and transcending the material captured through the addition of a new layer of “plastic interpretation” (Canudo). Hence the proposal to distinguish between reproductive archiving and expressive archiving. The former is based solely on film's recording capabilities, while the latter transcends this capacity on behalf of a medium which then develops its own expressivity. While the archival effect is in a sense “inherent to” the reproductive apparatus constituted by the moving picture camera, expression, on the contrary, requires an outside will to negotiate with the expressive potentialities of the medium.
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