Actualities (Motion pictures)
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Actualities (Motion pictures)
- This heading is used as a topical heading for works about short, unedited, silent films, primarily from the period of early cinema, that portray daily life or specific events or occurrences as filmed by a camera in a fixed location without commentary. When used as a topical heading it is subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical, and/or form subdivisions.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98005752
- info:lc/authorities/sh98005752
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh98005752#concept
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Variants
- Actualités (Motion pictures)
- Actuality films
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Sources
- found: Arrest in Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal., 1897.
- found: Yee, M.M. Moving image materials, 1988 (Actualities; use for early, usually short silent films in which the camera was positioned to record events or everyday life)
- found: Lopez, D. Films by genre, c1993 (Actuality (Actualite, Actualities, Actuality film, Documentaire, Educational, Interest film, News film, News item, Topical) the filming of "actual" events or the normal activities of people at work or at leisure; the actuality film is an early form of the documentary film; an actuality shows something that happened at the time of filming; a topical film records an event that is newsworthy; an interest film implies some measure of interpretation of its subject by the maker of the film)
General Notes
- This heading is used as a topical heading for works about short, unedited, silent films, primarily from the period of early cinema, that portray daily life or specific events or occurrences as filmed by a camera in a fixed location without commentary. When used as a topical heading it is subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical, and/or form subdivisions.
Change Notes
- 1998-09-01: new
- 2009-03-12: revised
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