Schlemmer film cadre collection
The Schlemmer Filmkadersammlung is a collection of 2,254 film frames and fragments that is part of the Special Collections of the Austrian Film Museum .
Edith Schlemmer, owner of the collection and long-time archive director of the Austrian Film Museum, received the objects in 67 envelopes from a private collector and made them available to the Film Museum for research and publication purposes after her retirement. The films from which the roster was taken by the original collector are almost all silent films , especially from the years 1910 to 1920. Many of these films are now considered lost. Some envelopes bore inscriptions or titles such as Greeks (film cadre with reference to ancient materials) or Wildwest (cadre from Westerns). Others were organized typologically, e.g. B. Series with titles such as children's recordings or color recordings (the latter were mostly stencil-colored film frames). Some envelopes were labeled with the names of the leading actors. The Austrian distribution title (or an approximation of it) was recorded on ten envelopes. More than 50 percent of the cadres were in unlabeled envelopes, arranged according to a system that seemed rather chaotic at first glance.