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Cinematheque

{{Short description|Organization that preserves and presents film}}

A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2005|title=cinematheque|url=https://www.wordreference.com/fren/cinematheque|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090718211518/http://www.wordreference.com:80/fren/cinematheque |archive-date=2009-07-18 |access-date=14 January 2021|website=Collins English French Electronic Dictionary|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=cinémathèque|url=https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cin%C3%A9math%C3%A8que#%C3%89tymologie|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031123352/http://fr.wiktionary.org:80/wiki/cin%C3%A9math%C3%A8que |archive-date=2010-10-31 |access-date=14 January 2021|website=Wiktionnaire}} 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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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".{{Cite book|last=Matuszewski|first=Boleslaw|title=Une nouvelle source de l'histoire (eng. A New Source of History)|publisher=|year=1898|isbn=|location=Paris|pages=6}} The "Archives of the Planet” (Les Archives de la planète) were established by French banker Albert Kahn, between 1912 and 1931.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Les collection du Musée Albert-Kahn|url=http://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615124142/http://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr:80/ |archive-date=2016-06-15 |access-date=14 January 2021|website=Le Musée départemental Albert-Kahn}} 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.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Cinémathèque Robert-Lynen - Les origines (Eng. Cinematheque Robert-Lynen - The origines)|url=http://www.cinemathequerobertlynen.paris/cinematheque-robert-lynen/histoire-cinematheque-robert-lynen/origines/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913182059/http://www.cinemathequerobertlynen.paris:80/cinematheque-robert-lynen/histoire-cinematheque-robert-lynen/origines/ |archive-date=2017-09-13 |access-date=14 January 2021|website=Cinémathèque Robert-Lynen}}File:Bobines de Filme na Cinemateca Portuguesa..png, 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.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=History of the archive|url=https://www.filminstitutet.se/en/learn-more-about-film/archival-film-collections/history-of-the-archive/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151029142916/http://www.filminstitutet.se:80/en/learn-more-about-film/archival-film-collections/history-of-the-archive/ |archive-date=2015-10-29 |access-date=14 January 2021|website=Swedish Film Institute}}{{Cite web|last=Christophe|first=Dupin|date=April 2013|title=The Origins of FIAF, 1936-1938|url=https://www.fiafnet.org/pages/History/Origins-of-FIAF.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151205082528/http://www.fiafnet.org:80/pages/History/Origins-of-FIAF.html |archive-date=2015-12-05 |access-date=14 January 2021|website=FIAF}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Les Collections|url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/collections.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150830104515/http://www.cinematheque.fr:80/collections.html |archive-date=2015-08-30 |access-date=14 January 2021|website=Cinémathèque française}} 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.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Images|url=http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13139&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040628224155/http://portal.unesco.org:80/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13139&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |archive-date=2004-06-28 |access-date=14 January 2021|website=UNESCO}} In 1991, the Association of European Cinematheques (ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes) was established.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=History of ACE|url=https://ace-film.eu/about-ace/history-ace/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819220749/http://www.ace-film.eu:80/about-ace/history-ace/ |archive-date=2018-08-19 |access-date=14 January 2021|website=Associations des Cinémathèques Europénnes}}

Africa

Morocco

Americas

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;; Canada

;; United States of America

;;Mexico

; Venezuela

;

; Other countries

Asia

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;; China

;; Indonesia

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;; Iran

;; Israel

;; Singapore

;; South Korea

;; Vietnam

Europe

;; Armenia

;; Belgium

  • CINEMATEK in Brussels{{cite web|title=Cinémathèque royale de Belgique official site|url=http://www.cinematek.be/|accessdate=10 April 2010|publisher=Cinémathèque royale de Belgique}}

;; Bulgaria

;; Czech Republic

;; Denmark

;; France

  • Cinémathèque Française in Paris
  • {{ill|Cinémathèque de Nice|fr}} in Nice
  • Cinémathèque de Bretagne in Brest
  • {{ill|Cinémathèque de Toulouse|fr}}
  • Cinematheque de Saint-Etienne in Saint-Etiennne
  • {{ill|Cinémathèque d'images de montagne|fr}} (Cinematheque of mountain images) in Gap in the French Alps
  • {{ill|Cinémathèque de Grenoble|fr}} in Grenoble
  • {{ill|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
  • {{ill|Cinémathèque de Nouvelle-Aquitaine|fr}} in Limoges
  • {{ill|Cinémathèque Hauts-de-France|fr}}
  • {{ill|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).
  • {{ill|Département Son, vidéo, multimedia de la Bibliothèque nationale de France|fr}} in the National Library of France, founded in 1461 in Paris
  • {{ill|Cinémathèque du documentaire|fr}} in Paris, responsible for supporting and promoting the production and distribution of works in the documentary genre.
  • {{ill|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.
  • {{ill|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

  • [http://www.anf-cinemateca.ro/selectii-din-program Arhiva Nationala de Filme - Cinemateca] in Bucharest

;; Serbia

;; Slovenia

;; Spain

;; Sweden

;; Ukraine

;; United Kingdom

;; Switzerland

Oceania

Australia

See also

References

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External links

{{Commons category|Cinémathèques}}

{{Wiktionary|cinematheque}}

  • [http://www.fiafnet.org/ International Federation of Film Archives] - Official Website
  • [https://ace-film.eu/ ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes] - Official Website
  • [https://thecinematheque.ca/ The Cinematheque] - Official Website
  • [http://www.cinemathequeontario.ca/ Cinematheque Ontario] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100312070658/http://www.cinemathequeontario.ca/ |date=2010-03-12 }} - Official Website
  • [http://www.cinemathequewaterloo.org/ Cinematheque Waterloo] - Official Website
  • [http://www.winnipegcinematheque.com/ Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque] - Official Website
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080821123910/http://www.koreafilm.org/ Korean Film Archive] - Official Website
  • [http://qag.qld.gov.au/cinematheque Australian Cinémathèque] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111102204458/http://qag.qld.gov.au/cinematheque |date=2011-11-02 }} - Official Website
  • [https://www.nfsa.gov.au/ National Film and Sound Archive of Australia] – official website
  • [http://www.sfi.se/cinemateket Swedish Cinematheque] - Official Website
  • [http://www.kinoteka.si/ Slovenian Cinematheque] - Official Website

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