Stichting Multimediale Cultuur (SMC) works together with the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE), among others. The Land of Maas and Waal is one of the post-war reconstruction landscapes that the RCE is highlighting. Five stories ‘from above and below’ from that part of the river area have been included. The other five episodes are about other subjects that played a role in the Dutch countryside.
In Bewogen Landschap, a collection of historical information films distributed by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture in the post-war period (1945-1985) was studied.
Still uit de film Van oud naar nieuw (1957)
Bewogen landschap
A cultural-historical study of the film practices of the Ministry of Agriculture (1945-1985)
Veer, P.M.
Thesis 2020
A film editing programme uses a timeline that consists of several image and sound lines.30 The first V1/A1 lines contain the selected fragments from the oral history interview. The fragments that are not relevant to the subject are removed. Next, the viewed historical agricultural information film is shown on the V3/A3 lines. The V1/A1 lines synchronise what the participant said while watching the film. The film and interview lines are thus connected. On the intervening V2/A2 lines, displaced fragments from the oral history interview are used as a new commentary voice that the filmmaker deems appropriate for the historical agricultural information film. Editing is a process of fitting and measuring, whereby the storyline of the archive film is leading in this case.
The last phase of the editing was the adjustment of the picture frames, the improvement of the picture and sound quality, the addition of written text and music fragments in order to create an attractive audiovisual product for an interested audience product for an interested audience. The test editing of the oral history film was completed.
