The Use of Archives Within Feature Film

Abstract

Abstract

The photographic nature of cinema has made it the best and most reliable way to document and archive the real happenings. This method is the most trusted when it comes to the recording and broadcasting process because it relies on the iconic and mechanical features that neutralize the identity of the maker, which falls in the circle of struggle between the subjectivity and the objectivity.

 Documentary films normally use these methods. According to Garretson’s classification of the levels of the documentaries, newspapers, cinema magazines, educating films,   scientific films , and travel films are the most reliable and trusted to reflect the reality accurately and objectively without any points of view or any analysis, i.e. without any subjectivity. As a result objectivity takes over and that creates a high level of creditability among the audience. These types of documentary films enriched the libraries with archival materials.

The using of the archival materials which root back to the documentary films in the structure of the fictional films is mainly based on industry and the virtual world. This created a problem about the nature of this use. The researcher has found that there is a mechanism based on the functionality of these materials in the film