Cinematheque

As Cinematheque (also: Cinematheque ) is defined as

  • A collection of films ( Film Archive, also: film library );
  • A film museum;
  • The organizational support of these collections or museums.

Collect archives and restore and give historically significant films, retrospectives set out to collect the history of film -related objects, take discounts and organize exhibitions.

Film archives in Germany

In Germany cinémathèques below are based on the cultural sovereignty of the country's politics and usually depend on their budgets of the respective fiscal policy.

The most important German film archives try every year to coordinate their work twice a Coordinating Council Kinematheksverbund each other and develop joint projects.

Members of the German Kinemathekenverbunds are:

  • Federal Archives - Department of Film Archives (Berlin)
  • German Cinematheque - Museum for Film and Television ( Berlin)
  • German Film Institute - DIF with the German Film Museum ( Frankfurt am Main )

As well as

  • CineGraph - Hamburg Center for film research
  • Film Museum Dusseldorf
  • Munich Film Museum
  • Filmmuseum Potsdam
  • House of the documentary (Stuttgart)

Permanent guests are:

  • DEFA -Stiftung (Berlin)
  • Friedrich- Wilhelm -Murnau -Stiftung (Wiesbaden)

Other major film libraries in Germany are:

  • The Bonn Cinematheque
  • The Cinematheque Karlsruhe
  • The Cinematheque in the Ruhr
  • The Cinémathèque Leipzig

See also: Network of Multimedia Resource Centres

History

1935 Henri Langlois and Georges Franju founded to show old movies, a film club " Cercle du cinéma ", from the 1936, the Cinémathèque française emerged. The idea that old movies should be archived, was by no means self-evident. Langlois was able to save a lot of films and materials that simply wanted to throw away the company.

As early as 1933 in London, the British Film Institute was founded. The same thing was in 1935 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York with the establishment of the Film Library to. In 1938, Henri Storck, André and Pierre THIRIFAYS VERMEYLEN the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique. In the same year, the International Federation of Film Archives, FIAF, was founded.

On 1 October 1955, the State Film Archive (SFA ) of the German Democratic Republic was founded, the German Film Archive in Berlin ( West) in 1963, the Austrian Film Museum in 1964. 1948, the Cinemateca Portuguesa and the Cinemateca Brasileira, 1981, the New Zealand Film Archive and 1989 African Film library of Ouagadougou ( Burkina Faso ) was founded.

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