Filmarchiv Austria
The Austrian Film Archive is an organization committed to the discovery, reconstruction and preservation of Austrian film documents - be it films, literature on cinema and film, or film magazines. With more than 100,000 movie titles, 2,000,000 photos and film stills, 25,000 film programs, 10,000 posters, 30,000 books, an extensive equipment, documents and costumes collection, it is the largest such facility in Austria.
Representing all genres of advertising photographs of experimental work to feature films are - - On the extension of the film stock is constantly worked through targeted research. From the obtained worldwide Austrian productions before 1945 over 95 percent in the Austrian Film Archive are kept. Thus, the Austrian Film Archive is the most important collection of Austrian film. The Austrian Film Archive is a member of the Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film ( FIAF ).
Activities
In addition to the classical task of a film archive, the collection and preservation of filming, the Austrian Film Archive as most major film archives sets nowadays emphasis on regular demonstration of his work - such as retrospectives, screenings and film festivals. A public study center at the site of the Centre, in the Upper Augartenstraße 1 is interested also provides insight into the Austrian film history. There exist, among others, over 20,000 copies of Austrian films on video and DVD.
In the search and restoration of Austrian films, the Film Archive Austria works closely with film institutes and archives together around the world. Thus, numerous gegoltene considered lost films are tracked and even feature films, which were often only partially usable quality in different countries and different versions exist, piece by piece to be gathered close to the original length. Among the first Austrian film productions of Saturn movie or the oldest recorded Austrian film The miller and his child. With Orlac 's hands Der Rosenkavalier (1926) and The Slave Queen some examples of dazzling movie classics may be mentioned, that would not be completely accessible and available to the public without the work of the Austrian Film Archives.
For the original 50 -part, had grown to 220 episodes (as of July 2013) DVD series The Austrian film drew the Austrian Film Archive jointly responsible with the standard film editing for the selection of films.
History
In 1929 the director of the Theatre Collection of the Austrian National Library, Joseph Gregor initiated, a " archive of Film Studies ," in which numerous film related objects and documents were collected. Founded in 1934 Viktor Matejka the " Society of Film friends" who promoted 1945 as a center of film culture work. Ludwig Gesek, the magazine called "Film Art " into being in 1949, is founded by Adolf Huebl and Roman Herle "Austrian Cinema Studies Society", which is later renamed the " Austrian Society of Film Studies ", and acts as the basis of scientific film research.
The demand for a film archive for Austria for the first time, according to the "First International Film Studies Week " in Vienna on June 3, 1954. The establishment of such an institution is decided on June 30, the Board of the " Austrian Society of Film Studies " and discussed the following FIAF Congress in Lausanne in October.
On October 17, 1955, the Austrian Film Archive ( ÖFA ) is formally constituted as an association. The founding members were the "Federal Office for Photography and Educational Film " (SHB ), the Austrian National Library, the " Austrian Society of Film Studies ", the " Society of Film Friends of Austria" and the " National Education in Vienna Urania ". Ludwig Gesek is the first Managing Director, acts as president Joseph Gregory. The ÖFA established itself as a collection site for feature films, documentaries and newsreels and related materials. On October 9, 1956, the Film Archive is a full member of FIAF, and on 19 November sees the first film presentation of ÖFA at the Albertina.
The first reconstruction with footage of ÖFA took place in 1961 and was Der Rosenkavalier from the year 1926. Two years later the first Viennale retrospective will ( " festival of joy " ) in the Urania organized and 1964, which is currently under establishment Austrian Film Museum for demonstrations movies. 1965 started with the transferral of highly flammable nitrate film and decomposable on safety film, which were used until well into the 1950s. Since the year 1968, the various film stock in Laxenburg located south of Vienna. So premises were rented and furnished for film collections and their processing at the edge of the castle park. Since 1971 also an extra storage were stored in a bunker for nitrate films. In the forester's lodge also a small camp was set up, but where in August 1974 began the nitrate film fire and the forester's house on fire.
1968 new offices were based in Rauhensteingasse 5 in the center of Vienna. In the same year an area in Laxenburg was selected as the central film depot of ÖFA after a long search. Construction began in 1969. In the Old Castle of Laxenburg 1970 premises are taken over and renovated, the exhibition purposes since then, and can be used as a film and documentary stock. As part of the opening exhibition in 1971 carried out a retrospective entitled " Wien-Berlin - Hollywood - Richard Oswald ". The film storage facilities can be taken this year in operation. A year later the first nitrate film stock Austria there was opened.
In 1980 Walter Fritz new managing director of ÖFA. 1984 FIAF Congress was held in Vienna and Laxenburg. 1990 saw an international symposium entitled " The audiovisual memory. Film archives in our society " in Vienna. In 1996 Ernst Kieninger Walter Fritz after as managing director. In 1997, the " Austrian Film Archive" in " Austrian Film Archive " of the new headquarters " Audiovisual Center Vienna Augarten " was renamed and established as a central collection, documentation and service center for films in Austria.
In 1997, the "Austria newsreel " part of the Austrian Film Archive was. Large international research and Repatriierungsprojekte to the discovery and retrieval of Austrian films are started in international partner archives. In the same year, the video edition launched " Austria in the historical film documents " and the first summer cinema retrospective ( " Laurel & Hardy " ) in the Augarten with cinema tent and open air in the garden of the film archive.
The first publication of the film archive was published in 1999 and was entitled " Electric Shadows". In 2001 the Centre for Film Documentation part of the Austrian Film Archive was. In 2001 the completion of a long-term cooperation agreement between the Austrian Film Archive and the ORF. In the same year more than 50,000 visitors have attended the screenings of the film archive for the first time. The Metro Cinema was taken over in 2002 as a new own venue with year-round full programming. In the same year the founding of the journal is done " movie archive ". The Film Archive Study Center was established in Audiovisual Centre Vienna Augarten. A year later, the studio theater Augarten was put into operation. The presentation series " fascination film archiving" was launched in 2003 at the Metro Cinema. In May this year the foundation stone was laid for the new Central Film Archive Laxenburg, which was opened as the most modern movie Depot 2004, Austria. This year, the " Publishing Film Archive Austria" was founded, in its range, there were already starting to over 100 publications, videos and DVDs.
2005 "50 Years of Film Archive " with special programs for the Austrian film history in the Metro were celebrated cinema and numerous special events and the first Prater film festival was organized on the Kaiserwiese in front of the ferris wheel as a homage to the beginnings of cinema in Austria and carried out.
In 2010, a new nitrate film stock was put into operation, which was built entirely of wood and is also energy technically independent. This camp can accommodate 70,000 films at 250 m² of floor space. It is the oldest films in Austria from 1895.
In December 2012, the " film treasure Austria " initiative was presented. The Film Archive has restored some of the early post-war films. The project was financed by the rights holder, Bank Austria and ORF. The first films were aired in December 2012 in ORF III: The other life from the year 1948 by Rudolf Steinboeck with Aglaya Schmid, Erni Mangold and Vilma Degischer, God's angels are and anywhere from 1947 by Hans Thimig with Attila Hörbiger and Susi Nicoletti Maresi from 1948 by Hans Thimig with Attila Hörbiger and Maria Schell in her first film role. For 2013, the broadcasting of other films has been announced.
Centre for Film Documentation
The Centre for Film Documentation founded in 1965 by Herbert Holba and Peter Spiegel in 2001, the year of inclusion in the Austrian Film Archive as a separate wholesale division, the largest private collection of movie photos, programs, video and film documents in Austria. It goes back to a program begun in 1945 collection of the two founders.
Collections
The collections of the Austrian Film Archive, the Austrian culture and contemporary history representative document. The oldest remaining items are the Vienna recordings by the Lumière brothers in the year 1896. The oldest Austrian film production is the documentary " The Emperor visit in Braunau / Inn " from 1903, taken from the traveling cinema owner Johann blower.
Some of the collections held by the Austrian Film Archive:
- " Gold Dust inventory " - important collection on the early history of cinema, an extensive collection of film documents from the monarchy time
- Reinthaler Collection - Austria's largest holding of cinema of the 1910s
- Köfinger Collection - tourism films from the silent era
- More nearly complete sets of weekly newsreels from the 1930s
- Archive newsreel Austria
Retrospectives
Since 1971 represents the Austrian Film Archive to the public regularly retrospectives, often accompanied by exhibitions, together. Below is a selection of previous retrospectives: