AbstractThe last years of DVD releases have shown that there is a need for academic standards in the publication of films. The article argues that, with the advent of new technology, one should propose a new system of DVD editions as a standard for specialist academic editions. The article suggests a methodology of editing films and preparing them for publication in a scholarly environment.The idea of text indexing, turning it into a network of interrelations and linking it with other texts, goes back to the philological tradition of editing scholarship, but can be transposed to other types of texts as well. For hypertextual environments the footnote has served as a prototype of linking. A hypertextual method of film publishing and publishing on film could be based on an intertwining of textual criticism and hypermedia technologies. It connects the traditional principles of annotation with digital technologies and their mark-up languages, applying hypermedia principles of commentary to the linear medium o...