Film archives Film archives The Academy Film Archive is part of the Academy Foundation, itself part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, an educational and nonprofit organization. The film archive is located in Beverly Hills, California, and comprises a collection of 15,000 titles, 70,000 seperate items, including early American cinema, documentary film, interviews, Academy Award winning films, and Academy Awards Shows. The foundation is also concerned with the preservation and restoration of films, as well as new technologies and methods of preservation. The archive was founded in 1927, and its first film was purchased in 1929. It holds both original films of the Academy Awards, and amateur films, in addition to its main movie collection. ...more on Wikipedia about "Academy Film Archive"
The Alaska Film Archives, located at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, holds the largest collection of film related material about Alaska. The archive was established in 1968, and is comprised almost entirely of 16mm film dating from the years 1920 to 1959. Since 1993, the archive has been maintained as a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alaska Film Archives"
Anthology Film Archives is a cinema and film archive in the East Village neighborhood of New York City devoted to the preservation and exhibition of experimental film. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anthology Film Archives"
Cinémathèque Française hosts the largest archive of films, movie documents, and film-related objects in the world. Furthermore the "Bibliothèque du Film", which has been created in 1992 to show the cinema history, its production, impact and artistic strength, has been brought together to the "Cinémathèque Française". Located in Paris, the Cinémathèque holds screenings daily of a variety of films from all over the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cinémathèque Française"
The George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, New York, comprises over 23,000 titles, including features, shorts, documentaries, newsreels, and paper artifacts. In 1996 the Eastman House founded the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. ...more on Wikipedia about "George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection"
The Internet Archive ( http://archive.org/ ), located at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, is dedicated to maintaining an archive of multimedia resources. This archive includes " snapshots of the World Wide Web" (archived copies of pages, taken at various points in time), software, movies, books, and audio recordings (including recordings of live concerts from bands that allow it). The Archive makes the collections available at no cost to researchers, historians, and scholars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet Archive"
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The Japanese American National Museum, located in the Little Tokyo area near downtown Los Angeles, California, is devoted to preserving the history and culture of Japanese-Americans. The museum is home to a moving image archive, which contains over 100,000 feet of 16mm and 8mm home movies of Japanese-Americans from the 1920s to the 1950s. The musuem also contains artifacts, textiles, art, photographs, and oral histories of Japanese Americans. ...more on Wikipedia about "Japanese American National Museum"
The Minnesota Historical Society is a private, non-profit educational and cultural instutution dedicated to preserving the history of the state of Minnesota. It was founded by the territorial legislature in 1849. ...more on Wikipedia about "Minnesota Historical Society"
The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film and Video, founded in 1935, contains works of international cinema, focusing on the art and history of the film medium. The collection comprises more than 14,000 films and 4 million film stills. The collection is housed in the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center, openend in 1996. ...more on Wikipedia about "Museum of Modern Art Department of Film and Video"
The National Air and Space Museum Film Archive, holds over 15,000 films documenting aerospace history. The earliest item in the collection is a 1909 test flight of the Wright Military Flyers at Ft. Myer, Virginia. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Air and Space Museum Film Archive"
The National Center for Jewish Film, located at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachussetts is dedicated to preserving the Jewish heritage, through its collection of over 12,000 reels of film. The collection includes features, documentaries, shorts, newsreels, and home movies. The Center also contains some of the few Yiddish language feature films in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Center for Jewish Film"
The British National Film and Television Archive collects, preserves, restores and then shares the films and television programmes which have helped to shape and record British life and times since cinema was invented in the late nineteenth century. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Film and Television Archive"
The Prelinger Archives is a collection of films, mostly shorts made for industrial or educational markets. ...more on Wikipedia about "Prelinger Archives"
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