Razgovor z Milovanom Gavazzijem
An Interview with Milovan Gavazzi

Summary/Abstract: Milovan GAVAZZI (1895-1992) is a pioneer of Croatian and Yugoslav ethnographic film. He made his first shots in the year 1930: The pottery in Dalmatia, followed by: Boiling the milk with the help of hot stones (1930), Traditional funeral on the wooden sledge (1935), etc. From 1930 to 1945 he made 12 films, 16 mm, black and white, filmed with simple spring-driven Agfa movex camera. After the Second World War Gavazzi organized a modest ethno film production at the Department for Ethology (Zagreb University), temporary connected with Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film in Goettingen. In the year 1957 he founded Yugoslav Commission on ethnographic film as a part of CIFES, which incited and stimulated ethnographic filming in other parts of Yugoslavia as well. Gavazzi's visual initiative represents an important segment.

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