Counter-archive : film, the everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Plan{garve}ete / Paula Amad.

From 1908 to 1931, French banker Albert Kahn financed a monumental multimedia archive intended to record the ""surface of the globe as inhabited and developed by Man."" Stored in a world-themed garden on the outskirts of Paris, the Archives de la Planète contained 4,000 stereosc...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Amad, Paula
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.
Series:	Film and culture.
Subjects:	Kahn, Albert, > 1860-1940. Archives de la Planète. Kahn, Albert, > 1860-1940 Archives de la Planète Actualities (Motion pictures) > History and criticism. Actualities (Motion pictures) Criticism, interpretation, etc.