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• A Journey on the World’s most Northerly Railway: Renaming and Remaking of Swedish Industrial Films

  2021. Marina Dahlquist. Provenance and Early Cinema, 223-235

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  Since the early 1900s, Swedish industries with the steel industry as the perhaps most prominent, were together with an energy market in transition pivotal for societal changes.  With very limited deposits of coal and oil but vast resources of waterpower in the north of Sweden, or “white coal” as it was called, the power company Vattenfall became a major force for power supplies and electrification of Swedish industries. The close ties between the steel industry and Vattenfall’s expansion of hydroelectric power including the electrification of the railway Malmbanan that was inaugurated in 1903 for the strategic transportation of iron ore, from the northern Swedish town Luleå, and Riksgränsen to Narvik at the Norwegian Atlantic coast, where decisive for the rapid growth of infrastructure. 

  As Rick Prelinger and others have shown, industrial companies—in Sweden as elsewhere—became extensive users of visual media. Their multiple advertisement campaigns disclose the scope of possibilities at hand as well as it shows a change of focus over time, teaching the public how to understand and navigate in modern society. This text explore, by findings in company archives such as Swedish Pathé and Vattenfall together with the rich resources that the Swedish censorship board holds, the provenance of the multiple film titles about Malmbanan that appeared in film programs all over the country during the years 1910-1915. The railroad and the hydropower station at Porjus, north of the polar circle, with its principal purpose to provide the railway with electricity, received major attention not only as an icon of modernity but for its spectacular sceneries in the northern wilderness, as in Med jordens nordligaste järnväg: en färd Narvik-Riksgränsen (AB Sveafilms, 1911). Numerous film titles were made, often screened at regular movie theaters. Specific film titles were copied, renamed and repositioned within new company distribution networks as well as program contexts making the origin of the productions unclear. To further obstruct the question of provenance a slew of new films was made on the very same topic with very similar titles. By focusing on these film titles and their provenance, early film practices and print circulations when it comes to early non-fiction and industrial films in Sweden are examined and explored.

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• Petroleum and Hollywood Stardom: Making Way for Oil Consumption through Visual Culture

  2021. Marina Dahlquist. Petrocinema, 117-135

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• Petrocinema: Sponsored Film and the Oil Industry

  2021. .

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  Petrocinema presents a collection of essays concerning the close relationship between the oil industry and modern mediaespecially film. Since the early 1920s, oil extracting companies such as Standard Oil, Royal Dutch/Shell, ConocoPhillips, or Statoil have been producing and circulating moving images for various purposes including research and training, safety, process observation, or promotion. Such industrial and sponsored films include documentaries, educationals, and commercials that formed part of a larger cultural project to transform the image of oil exploitation, creating media interfaces that would allow corporations to coordinate their goals with broader cultural and societal concerns. Falling outside of the domain of conventional cinema, such films firmly belong to an emerging canon of sponsored and educational film and media that has developed over the past decade. Contributing to this burgeoning field of sponsored and educational film scholarship, chapters in this book bear on the intersecting cultural histories of oil extraction and media history by looking closely at moving image imaginaries of the oil industry, from the earliest origins or spills in the 20th century to todays post industrial petromelancholia.

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