Travel Documentary and Travel Show

This master thesis deals with travel documentaries. It presents the genre's basic definitions and briefly describes its history from the beginning of cinematography up to now, with a special focus on current Czech and foreign TV series. Filming and post-production dramaturgical rules and production limits are described in the case study of television series Na cestě, and their resulting impact on the show's traits is analyzed. The outcomes of television rating and viewer satisfaction measurements are also dealt with; moreover, based on the available data, a viewer profile is outlined, attempting to deduce what his visions and expectations are. As a contrast with TV production, the paper includes two creative documentaries, which characteristics also fit the travel genre: Notebook from China, by Danish director Jorgen Leth, and Šimon Špidla's Into Oblivion. The study compares their style and ways of narration, draws a comparison with series' features, and aims to answer whether or not the conditions of TV series production enable creative travel filmmaking

Jorgen Leth - Master of Danish (Documentary) Film

Tato práce monograficky pojednává o díle dánského filmového režiséra Jorgena Letha. Jejím hlavním cílem je představit tohoto autora českým čtenářům. Shrnuje základní biografické údaje, zdroje umělecké inspirace a zaměřuje se na výrazný autorský styl. Několika příkladech se snaží postihnout Lethovy základní tvůrčí postupy a hlavní tématické oblasti jeho filmů. Text se kromě zdrojů uvedených v použité literatuře opírá také o osobní rozhovor, který se mi podařilo získat v červenci roku 2008 během Lethova pobytu na filmovém festivalu v Karlových Varech. Významnou částí práce je kompletně zpracovaná filmografie se stručnými anotacemi ke všem dvaačtyřiceti filmům, jež dosud Jørgen Leth natočil ? a to včetně mnoha obrazových ukázek. Kromě celovečerního filmového experimentu s Larsem von Trierem pod názvem Pět překážek (2005) není u nás tvorba Jorgena Letha téměř vůbec známá. Tato práce si tedy klade za cíl přispět k bližšímu seznámení s tímto jistě velmi zajímavým a inspirativním autorem

Jorgen Leth - Master of Danish (Documentary) Film

This thesis is a monograph on the work of famous Danish filmmaker Jorgen Leth and the main aim of it is to introduce this author to Czech readers. It summarizes basic biographical data and the roots of Leth?s artistic inspiration and focuses on his distinctive filmic style. By the way of several examples, it shows basic creative methods and main thematic areas of his films. The text is based ? besides of sources quoted in the references ? on the personal interview with Jørgen Leth conducted in July 2008 during the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary. Important part of the thesis creates exhaustively elaborated list of Leth?s films supplemented with short annotations and some pictures captured from the movies. Except of full-length experimental film The Five Obstructions (2005) directed together with Lars von Trier, there is a lack of knowledge of his work in the Czech Republic. This thesis wants to contribute to better acquaintance with this interesting and inspiring author

New biostratigraphical and geochemical data from the mélange complexes of the Meliata Unit s.s., Čoltovo village (Western Carpathians, Slovakia)

The surrounding of the Čoltovo village is a well-known location related to the Meliata Superunit (especially Meliata Unit s.s.). The Meliata Unit is represented by intricate mélange complexes linked to the closure of the ancient Meliata Ocean, as a significant part of the Western Carpathians geological story. In general, Meliata complexes are divided into HP/LT Permian to Jurassic metamorphosed clastic sediments, carbonates and basic volcanics (Bôrka Nappe) and complexes of “mixed chaos” of the Jurassic low grade shales with huge Triassic olistostrome bodies (Meliata Unit s.s.), the latter being the main subject of this work. Outcrops near the village of Čoltovo along the slopes of the W–E trend on the Slaná River bank provided limited information only. Therefore, new parts were excavated in March/2022. After removal of debris, the very complex internal structure of the mélange can be clearly detectable. This new section is composed of six individual outcrops (ČLP1 to ČLP6 from left to right) and consists of two contrasting lithological parts. The eastern part is mainly characterized by strongly weathered gray fine-grained shales and tuffs containing blocks of lithologically variable rocks. These are mainly represented by basic volcanics and dark coarse-grained Jurassic crinoidal limestones. The western part of the section consists of red and white fine-grained siliciclastics with basic volcanic material, and blocks of dark red, green and purple radiolarites. In the upper parts of the outcrops, layers of dark crinoidal limestones, shales and conglomerates of the Jurassic age are present. The connection between these beds and the mélange is documented by their presence as blocks in the left part of the section. The mélange complexes are overstepped by the Lower Miocene organodetritic limestones, sandstones and breccias (Bretka Beds). Three samples from the western part of the new outcrops gave identifiable Middle Triassic radiolarians. In addition, an old outcrop to the east of the newly excavated section, provided a productive sample with Upper Triassic radiolarian microfauna. Our research was also focused on geochemical analyses of radiolaria-bearing siliciclastics and basic volcanics, aiming at understanding the palaeoenvironment of the Meliata Ocean. All of the sediment samples gave similar results, which point to shallow marine environment, close to the continental margin. The geochemical data indicate a mature continental sedimentary provenance. Based on these data, we interpret the source of the samples located to the north of the Meliata Ocean (possibly Permian clastics of the Gemer Unit). Basic volcanics sample from the right side of the section confirms basalt/basaltic andesite composition. From the study of the Čoltovo section it seems the sedimentary matrix of the olistostrome probably originated from a passive continental margin and it is mixed with advanced ophiolite-bearing nappes within a Jurassic accretionary mélange (Meliata Unit s.s.)

Detrital rutile U-Pb geochronology of the Alpine convergence in the External Western Carpathians

The Carpathian Flysch Belt represents a Paleogene accretionary wedge (External Western Carpathians  – EWC) located in front of the narrow Pieniny Klippen Belt zone and the Cretaceous Central Western Carpathian nappe stack. The Flysch Belt is formed of several nappes thrust over the slope of the European Platform in the Miocene. This study is focused on the uppermost Magura Nappe, which consists of the Rača, Bystrica and Krynica subunits. As there are no relics of pre-Miocene oceanic crust in the EWC, the sedimentary rocks of the Flysch Belt are the only source of information available about the Alpine collisional events. U-Pb geochronology was applied to detrital rutile from sandstones of the Magura Nappe in order to better understand the closure of the Alpine Tethys in the Western Carpathians. Ten medium-sized sandstone samples were collected across the Bystrica and Krynica subunits in the Nowy Targ region in southern Poland. The samples represent synorogenic clastic sediments with inferred deposition ages between the Late Cretaceous and Oligocene. Approximately 200 rutile grains were separated from each sandstone sample and around half of them were selected for further analyses. The age and appearance (shape, inclusions, zoning etc.) of the dated rutile show significant variations, suggesting derivation from various sources. The most prominent age peaks represent the Variscan (c. 400–280 Ma) and Alpine (c. 160–90 Ma) tectonic events which are well-pronounced in all but the oldest dated sample. It is also noteworthy that four distinct Alpine signals were detected in our rutile data set. The two most prominent peaks with ages of 137–126 Ma and 115–105 Ma are found in majority of the samples. In two sandstone samples, deposited between the Eocene –Oligocene and the Late Cretaceous–Paleocene, the youngest peak of 94–90 Ma appears. Another peak of 193–184 Ma is also present in these two samples, as well as in another sandstone deposited between the Paleocene and the Eocene. In addition, most samples show few Proterozoic ages (approx. 1770 Ma, 1200 Ma, 680 Ma and 600 Ma). Since metamorphic rutile requires relatively high pressure to crystallize, its formation in the course of an orogeny is possible in a subduction setting. Hence, our new age data may reflect tectonic events related to subduction of oceanic crust and overlying sediments. Tentatively, we propose that recognizable events include the Jurassic subduction of the Meliata Ocean (~180–155 Ma), the Early Cretaceous thrust stacking of the Veporic and Gemeric domains (140–105 Ma) and possibly the Late Cretaceous subduction of the Váh Ocean (c. 90 Ma). In addition to dating, the Zr content of the rutile formed during the Alpine orogeny was measured by electron microprobe at the AGH University in Krakow. The amount of Zr varies between 37–420 ppm in almost all grains, with the exception of 4 rutile grains where ~1100 ppm was reached. The Zr in rutile thermometer, based on the approach of Kohn (2020) was used to calculate the possible metamorphic conditions at 450–650°C and >7.5 kbar. This data set corroborates formation of the Alpine rutile under relatively high pressure and rather low to moderate pressure/temperature gradient, i.e. typical of subduction-related tectonic environments