Statens Filmcentral

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Statens Filmcentral was a Danish, state-owned film distributor , mainly of short and documentary films for the education sector. It was founded in 1939 and closed in 1997.

Initially, the then Justice Minister Carl Theodor Zahle planned to set up a monopoly state film distributor. However, this idea from 1933 was abandoned with the passage of a Cinema and Film Act in 1938 under the succeeding Minister of Justice, Karl Kristian Steincke , and instead a film distribution for educational purposes was sought. The institution, which opened on January 1, 1939, was to distribute the short and documentary films of the Dansk Kulturfilm and the Ministeriernes Filmudvalg as well as their imported films.

Due to the new Film Act of 1997, Statens Filmcentral, Det Danske Filmmuseum and Det Danske Filminstitut were merged under the name of the latter.

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  • 1939–1945: Thomas P. Hejle
  • 1946–1957: Ebbe Neergaard
  • 1958–1961: Erik Hauerslev
  • 1962–1967: Werner Pedersen
  • 1967–1989: Axel Jepsen
  • 1989–1997: Else Relster

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