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Cinematheque

Organization that preserves and presents film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue.[1][2] Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typically, a cinematheque has at least one motion picture theatre, which offers screenings of its collections and other international films.

History

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Film Archive, Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela.
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Main facade of the head office, Bulgarian National Film Archive (Българска Национална Филмотека)

From the first cinema screenings until 1930, several attempts to establish film archives were initiated in Europe, the US and Russia. As early as 1898, the photographer and cameraman Bolesław Matuszewski evoked the idea of a film archive. "It is a matter of giving this perhaps privileged source of history the same authority, the same official existence, the same access as to other archives already known".[3] The "Archives of the Planet” (Les Archives de la planète) were established by French banker Albert Kahn, between 1912 and 1931.[4] Military film archives were also created in France, Germany and Great Britain after the First World War. The cinematheque of the city of Paris, for educational purposes, was created in 1925.[5]

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Film reels at the Cinemateca Portuguesa, in Portugal

However, it was not until the 1930s and the awareness of the destruction of films at the time of the transition to sound movies that the first film archives emerged. Some of the first formal film archives were created: in Stockholm in 1933, the Reichsfilmarchiv in Berlin in 1934, the National Film Library in London and the Film Library at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1935, the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library of Australia in 1935, the Cinémathèque française in Paris created in 1936.[6][7][8] In 1938, the International Federation of Film Archives was created, bringing together institutions devoted to cinematographic heritage.[7] On 27 October 1980, the General Conference of UNESCO adopted the "Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Images" which recognizes the need to preserve and provide access to cinematographic heritage.[9] In 1991, the Association of European Cinematheques (ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes) was established.[10]

Africa

Morocco

Americas

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The Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal
Canada
United States of America
Mexico
Venezuela
Other countries

Asia

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Entrance to the new Tel Aviv Cinematheque
China
Indonesia
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Jerusalem Cinematheque
Iran
Israel
Singapore
South Korea
Vietnam
  • Hanoi Cinematheque in Hanoi

Europe

Armenia
Belgium
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
  • Cinémathèque Française in Paris
  • Cinémathèque de Nice [fr] in Nice
  • Cinémathèque de Bretagne in Brest
  • Cinémathèque de Toulouse [fr]
  • Cinematheque de Saint-Etienne in Saint-Etiennne
  • Cinémathèque d'images de montagne [fr] (Cinematheque of mountain images) in Gap in the French Alps
  • Cinémathèque de Grenoble [fr] in Grenoble
  • Cinémathèque Jean Marie Boursicot [fr] in Marseille, dedicated exclusively to the conservation of advertising film, enriched every year, by an additional 25 000 films sent by 750 advertising agency correspondents in 80 countries.
  • Cinémathèque Méliès in Paris, collects, preserves and promotes the work of Georges Méliès
  • Cinémathèque de Nouvelle-Aquitaine [fr] in Limoges
  • Cinémathèque Hauts-de-France [fr]
  • Cinémathèque Robert-Lynen [fr] founded in 1926 in Paris. One of the things that sets it apart from other cinematheques is that it is used for educational purposes by schools (from nursery to high school).
  • Département Son, vidéo, multimedia de la Bibliothèque nationale de France [fr] in the National Library of France, founded in 1461 in Paris
  • Cinémathèque du documentaire [fr] in Paris, responsible for supporting and promoting the production and distribution of works in the documentary genre.
  • Cinémathèque régionale de Bourgogne Jean-Douchet [fr] in Dijon, Burgundy
  • National Audiovisual Institute is the repository of all French radio and television audiovisual archives. It has allowed free online consultation on a website called ina.fr with a search tool indexing 100,000 archives of historical programs, for a total of 20,000 hours.
  • Archives françaises du film [fr] is part of the National Centre for Cinema are both located in the Fort de Bois-d'Arcy, southwest of Paris.
  • GP Archives (GP for Gaumont Pathé)


Germany
Italy
Luxembourg
Norway
Poland
  • Iluzjon - Film Art Museum in Warsaw
Portugal
Romania
Serbia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Switzerland

Oceania

Australia

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