Analyses
Click and see different ways of analysing the Estonian newsreel data!
Film-maker Networks
Who collaborated the most with the other film-makers? Do you recognize recurring patterns or anomalies that you would not have expected? These, and many other questions you can explore with the help of interactive visualisation of film crew networks.
Images
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What were the most frequently occurring images in Estonian newsreels? Did newsreels use different kinds of images to tell about the contemporary world in the 1950s and in the 1980s? Which objects were most frequently present in the newsreels? Were the images used in describing Tallinn somehow particular in relation to all other images? How often were cats portrayed in the newsreels – and did the algorithm recognize cats in the images correctly?
Word cloud
What words are used to describe the contents of the Estonian newsreels and how do they change over time? What keyword tags were used in describing footage containing children, sports, or political events? What kinds of words describe the newsreel contents in the 1930s and in the 1970s? Where do you see the most radical changes in what comes to the keywords?
Places
Which cities were most frequently mentioned in Estonian newsreels? Did the emphasis of places mentioned change over years? How many times my home city was mentioned in the newsreels and when? Which places were not mentioned in the newsreels that are constantly discussed in the news today?
Newsreels over years
In which years the production of Estonian newsreels peaked? When did the newsreel production experience difficulties and journal titles changed?