Task

The following video introduces us to the Deutsches Filminstitut and Filmmuseum’s KinoClub, which enables pre-school children to watch, learn and understand not just about what is in an Archive, but how film has for much of its life been a material medium, that needs to be physically preserved. A film archive might seem on the face of it to be resistant to young minds (and all those sticky fingers!), but this short video demonstrates some of the key principles for bringing old film to life.

Watch the video and make a note of the ways in which the children are enabled to engage with film in its material nature. What teaching and learning strategies can you see being used? Are these strategies uniquely appropriate to young learners do you think? Or can you see them being used with older students and other learners?

For more context, and deeper understanding, please have a look at this study guide by the Deutsches Filminstitut and Filmmuseum created for Schatten (Shadows, 1960), by Hansjürgen Pohland.

How does the mode of address differ from the activities shown in the video?