Light, camera... Education of the body and character in Max Glücksmann’s newsreels (1913-1915)

ABSTRACT

The purpose is to observe two documentary newsreels made by Max Glücksmann in 1913 and 1915, which shows a group of army cadet training and another group of schoolchildren performing physical activities. The principal aim is to analyze the aesthetic and political discourses that emerge from these motion pictures, using theoretical resources from the philosophy, history, and cinematography field studies about corporal and sensibilities education in Argentina. The purpose is to understand the techniques put into play, cinematographic and bodily, understanding the general origins of cinema and Physical Education because of the articulation of symmetrically moving images that show symmetrically moving bodies.

Keywords:
Body Education; Documentary Informative Cinema; Technics; Symmetry