Cinematheque


A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library, 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

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". The "Archives of the Planet” were established by French banker Albert Kahn, between 1912 and 1931. 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.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. In 1938, the International Federation of Film Archives was created, bringing together institutions devoted to cinematographic heritage. 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. In 1991, the Association of European Cinematheques was established.

Africa

Morocco
;; Canada
;; United States of America
;;Mexico
  • Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City
  • Filmoteca de la UNAM in Mexico City
; Venezuela
; Other countries
;; China
;; Indonesia
;; Iran
  • Tehran Cinematheque in Tehran
  • in Tehran
;; Israel
;; Singapore
;; South Korea
;; Vietnam
;; Armenia
  • Armenian National Cinematheque in Yerevan
;; Belgium
;; Bulgaria
;; Czech Republic
  • Národní filmový archiv in Prague
;; Denmark
;; France
  • Cinémathèque Française in Paris
  • in Nice
  • Cinémathèque de Bretagne in Brest
  • Cinematheque de Saint-Etienne in Saint-Etiennne
  • in Gap in the French Alps
  • in Grenoble
  • 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
  • in Limoges
  • 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.
  • in the National Library of France, founded in 1461 in Paris
  • in Paris, responsible for supporting and promoting the production and distribution of works in the documentary genre.
  • 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.
  • is part of the National Centre for Cinema are both located in the Fort de Bois-d'Arcy, southwest of Paris.
  • GP Archives
;; Germany
  • Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin,
  • DFF Deutsches Filmnstitut & Filmmuseum in Frankfurt
  • Filmmuseum Potsdam Institut der Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam
  • Film Museum München in Munich
  • Filmmuseum der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf
;; Italy
  • Cineteca Nazionale in Rome
  • Cineteca Italiana in Milan
  • Cineteca di Bologna in Bologna
;; Luxembourg
;; Norway
;; Poland
  • Iluzjon - Film Art Museum in Warsaw
;; Portugal
  • Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon
;; Romania
;; Serbia
  • State Audiovisual Archives of Serbia – Yugoslav Cinematheque in Belgrade
;; Slovenia
;; Spain
;; Sweden
  • Cinemateket in Stockholm
;; Ukraine
  • Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre in Kyiv
;; United Kingdom
  • British Film Institute in London
;; Switzerland
  • Cinémathèque suisse in Lausanne

    Oceania

Australia