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The paper explores the medial construction and aestheticising of the war, examining current TV documentaries on the First World War. The first part consists in a detailed film- and picture analysis of wartime film material. The second part examines how TV authors work with this material. These two inquiries constitute the basis of a conclusive synthesis, which examines continuities and breaks in the narration these pictures transport. This paper offers a contribution to the discussion on the treatment of pictures in the media and in historical science.

Le développement de la téléinformatique, et notamment des transmissions de données, va rap- procher deux techniques, celles des télécommunications et de l’informatique. Les ingénieurs œuvrant respectivement dans ces domaines découvrent au début des années 1970, au travers de la conception de réseaux à commutation de paquets, ce qui les rapproche mais aussi les oppose sur le plan technique, ou culturel.

Our lecture explores the medial construction and aestheticising of the war, examining current TV documentaries on the First World War. Two time planes are here intertwined: on the first level we see how the film medium during World War One lends to the industrialised war events a new aesthetic dimension. In the second, contemporary level, this film material is reassembled and charged with additional significance.