Swiss Film Archive
The Swiss Film Archive, known all over Switzerland as Cinémathèque suisse, is a private, nonprofit foundation based in Lausanne. It collects, preserves, restores and gives access to the Filmgut Switzerland ( film, video and print media archive).
The Cinémathèque Suisse has its origins in founded in Basel on October 1, 1943 Swiss Film Archive was founded on 3 November 1948 in Lausanne. In May 1949, the stocks of the Swiss Film Archives were transported by two trucks from Basel to Lausanne. In 1950, the Film Archive received a first grant from the city of Lausanne, which provided him space for landfilling of movies. From the cultural circles but remained any assistance, the Canton of Vaud wanted to know from this institution then nothing and the Confederation lacked a legal basis for a commitment. The debt increased to alarming levels.
In 1951, the journalist and art critic Freddy Buache joined the founding group and on 18 September 1981 the club was transformed into a foundation.
The objectives of the Foundation are:
- Receive documents from the fields of film art and technology and receive messages, regardless of their origin;
- Expand the institute's own stocks, conserve, restore and showcase;
- Establish a national museum, as well as to form a research center for the art of film and technology;
- Serve the common good and not pursue any profit targets.
Since 1 August 2002, the Article considers 5Vorlage: Art / Maintenance / ch- looking lit.. c of the Swiss Film Act of 14 December 2001 stated that the federal government can finance the archiving and restoration of films or otherwise support it. Since then, the Foundation will subsidize two-thirds from the Federation, canton of Vaud and of the city of Lausanne.
In 2005 the collection consisted of 70 000 movies, 2 million photos, 100 000 color slides and 90 000 posters.