How should colonial film archives be read? How can historians and
ethnographers use colonial film as a complement to conventional
written sources? Sandeep Ray uses the case of Dutch colonial film
in Indonesia to show how a critically-, historically- and
cinematically-informed reading of colonial film in the archive can
be a powerful and unexpected source, and one more easily accessible
today via digitisation. The language of film and the conventions
and forms of non-fiction film were still in formation in the first
two decades of the 20th century. Colonialism was one of the drivers
of this development, as the picturing of the native "other" in film
was seen as an important tool to build support for missionary and
colonial efforts. While social histories of photography in
non-European contexts have been an area of great interest in recent
years; Celluloid Colony brings moving images into the same scope of
study.
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