ABSTRACT
Historical documentaries on television have forged a new genre based on presenting pictures as records of the past, an innovation that became popular in the 1970s and 1980s. With the new genre, television became the fi rst medium that, on a regular basis, restaged as historical records pictures it had produced in the past. At least with respect to the moving picture, the rebroadcasting of old clips thus established the novel format of what could be called pictorial historiography.
