The film combines moving giant-screen images made at the original sites with original still photographs.
The goal now is to put as many items as possible on public view, preferably in their original sites.
For instance, when motor nerves are severed, nerve terminals degenerate and their original sites are occupied by Schwann cells.
Two circular areas of churned, muddy soil reveal the original sites of the metal cages around which the cattle stood to feed on the silage they contained.
Of the city's handful of theater organs at their original sites, Mr. Kopp said, only the Wurlitzer at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan is now in use.
Budgeted at $15.8 million, it is being produced by an Austrian, Michael Ecker, and his Opera on Original Sites organization, which also presented the Beijing "Turandot".
In March, they began a lawsuit against the Culture Ministry, saying it was violating laws against the removal of historic finds from their original sites.
The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum (opened 1964) located outside Holywood has open-air buildings brought from their original sites and reerected in similar surroundings.
Looking for where he grew up reveals not many original sites from his past but, as in a W. G. Sebald novel and maybe more usefully, a palimpsest of ruin and memory.
The Derby has a proud place in this city, which was one of the original sites of the sport after its founding in Akron, Ohio, in 1936; racing has taken place here every year since.
"Unfortunately, it was impossible at the last minute to find a first-rate conductor of the level of Lorin Maazel," said Mr. Ecker, whose Opera on Original Sites corporation presented "Turandot" in Beijing in 1998.
