Projections of Polonia: Conservation, Re-Housing, and Analysis of Films from the Polish Consulate in Toronto
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The goal of this Master’s Research Paper was to oversee the conservation, repairs, and provenance research of 159 total film reels, 157 on 16mm and 2 on 35mm, that were in the possession of the Polish Consulate of Toronto from 1976 until 2012. To promote national pride and to divert attention from human rights atrocities under Communist policies, the Polish Consulate of Toronto, in partnership with the federal entity Towarzystwo Łączności z Polonią Zagraniczną “Polonia” (Society for Foreign Liaison with Poles), organized screenings of epic wartime feature films, children’s cartoons, and short travelogues, among other genres, that also aired on Polish television. However, the screenings of such films only strengthened the pride of the diaspora, who largely supported the Solidarność (Solidarity) movement. By contextualizing the films within the history of Polish cinema and nationhood, this project underscores the necessity to save films that served diplomatic, propagandistic, and patriotic purposes.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".