The Moving Image on the North Atlantic, 1930-1950: The Case of the Grenfell Mission

This article maps the relationship between moving images and the documentation of human and environmental changes through the case of the Grenfell Mission of Newfoundland and Labrador. The Labrador Institute’s collection of never-released film footage of the Grenfell Mission constitutes a distinct m...

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Main Author: Ruiz, Rafico
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Acadiensis Press 2014
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Online Access:https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/23124
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Summary:This article maps the relationship between moving images and the documentation of human and environmental changes through the case of the Grenfell Mission of Newfoundland and Labrador. The Labrador Institute’s collection of never-released film footage of the Grenfell Mission constitutes a distinct media environment that opens up ways of thinking about environmental historiography as a practice that incorporates “media-specificity” into its modes of operation and argumentation. This approach asks us to examine not only how images of the environment have been produced, circulated, and received over the course of time, but also how these environments were produced as distinct, medium-specific entities in their own right. Cet article établit les liens entre des images animées et la documentation de changements anthropiques et environnementaux à partir du cas de la mission de Grenfell, à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. Les films d’archives inédits de la mission de Grenfell, qui font partie de la collection du Labrador Institute, constituent un univers médiatique remarquable qui élargit notre façon de concevoir l’historiographie environnementale comme une pratique qui incorpore la « spécificité des médias » dans ses modes de fonctionnement et d’argumentation. Cette approche exige que l’on examine non seulement comment les images de l’environnement ont été produites, diffusées et reçues au fil du temps, mais aussi comment ces environnements ont été produits en tant qu’entités à part entière spécifiques au médium.