Film archive

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A film archive (also: film library ) is a collection of films, often with the aim of preserving older and rare films for a future audience for a longer period of time. If a film archive makes its holdings accessible to the public in addition to these work areas - this is the case with almost all modern film archives - one speaks of a cinematheque . Film archives thus take on the important task of collecting, preserving and making available the film heritage .

Associations

The Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film is an important international association for film archives . In Germany there is the German Kinematheksverbund .

Securing the film heritage

Since film material made of acetyl cellulose , as it has been used since the end of the 1920s, is subject to deterioration if improperly stored, a particular focus of film archiving is on archive technology . Another important area of ​​work is film restoration ; H. the restoration of the lost original version of films, of which only negatives or copies exist that have become incomplete due to years of playback, damage, cracks, cuts, etc.

Important modern film archives

Historical film archives

literature

  • Rolf Aurich and Ralf Forster (eds.): How the film became immortal. Pre-academic film studies in Germany . edition text + kritik , Munich 2015. (especially the part "Film Archives and Collections", pp. 27–96)
  • Wilfried Köpke and Peter Stettner (eds.): Filmerbe. Non-fictional moving images in science and media practice , Cologne (von Halem) 2018, ISBN 978-3-86962-295-8
  • Friedrich Terveen: Film archiving for research and teaching. First considerations and approaches 1895-1932 , in: Yearbook "Der Bär von Berlin", ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin , 22nd year, Berlin 1977.
  • Friedrich Terveen: Film archiving for research and teaching. On the development in Germany from 1932 to 1970 , in: Yearbook “Der Bär von Berlin”, ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin , 23rd year, Berlin 1978.

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