Nezih Erdogan has published articles and book chapters on Turkish popular cinema, and the early years of cinema in Istanbul. He is currently working at Istanbul Istinye University. His articles are published in Screen, New Cinemas, and Participations. Ebru Kayaalp is a cultural anthropologist currently working at Yeditepe University, Istanbul. Her articles are published inRegulation and Governance, Ethnologie Française, Social Anthropology, Health, Risk and Society and Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space .

• Acknowledgements, Introduction: The Joys of Forgetting, Reinventing and Coping with the Archive Fever, New Frontiers? Between Absence and Presence of Archives, What Are Film Archives For? (and why we need them to change) or: Adventures in the Archive World, Viewing The Ottoman Land in Early Travel Films, How Social Media Platforms Replace Film Archives When There are No Archives , Intersecting Paths of Eveline T. Scott and Traugott Fuchs: How do Private Collections Speak to Us? , The God of Small Films or What You Have Found is not What You Have Lost, The Ethics of Appropriation: Found Footage between Archive and Internet, The Infra-Ordinary Archive: On the Turkish 8 mm Home Movies, Interview with Gustav Deutsch: Categorisation Limits, Old Footage, New Meanings. The Case of The Atomic Café, What the Prints (don't) Tell, Preservation and Resignation: A Study on Survival, Memory and Trust in a Time of Un-framing the Film Heritage, Uncontained Archives of Cinema, Bibliography, Index

"The edited collection presents useful additions to scholarship on early film and film archives."Cate Cleo Alexander, University of Toronto, in Synoptique