Shrouded History: The Canadian Film and Photo Unit, Records Creation, Reuse, and the Recontextualizing of "Lost" Audiovisual Heritage
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article provides a history of the record created by the film unit of the Canadian Army during the Second World War. Through a reading of the records (photos, textual records, etc.), the author rebuilds the context of creation of the audiovisual records, their custodial history after the war, and their postcustodial experience. The contextualizing postcustodial history is relevant to understanding not only the Canadian Film and Photo Unit heritage, but also other aspects of Canada’s audiovisual history. Canada’s early audiovisual historical record is very much affected by its later custodians and archives. As such, this article is a history of the making of a historical record during the Second World War as well as a history of recordkeeping after the war. RESUME Cet article presente un historique des documents d’archives crees par l’unite de film et de photographie de l’Armee canadienne pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. En examinant les documents d’archives (photos, documents textuels, etc.), l’auteure retablit le contexte de creation des documents audio-visuels, l’historique de leur conservation apres la guerre et celle de leur « post-conservation » (« postcustodial experience »). L’historique du contexte de « post-conservation » (« contextualizing postcustodial history ») est pertinent afin de comprendre non seulement le patrimoine de l’Unite de film et de photographie de l’Armee canadienne, mais aussi d’autres aspects de l’histoire audio-visuelle canadienne. Les archives des premiers documents audio-visuels du Canada ont ete tres affectees par leurs conservateurs et leurs centres d’archives. Ainsi, cet article se veut l’histoire de la creation d’archives historiques pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, aussi bien que l’histoire de la tenue de documents dans l’apres-guerre.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".