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This nonprofit foundation funds conservation projects in historic conservation, archeology, film preservation, and music. One of the projects has been to create language and text databases for Arabic and Coptic bible texts, ancient Greek papyri, documents of US founding fathers, and translations of Persian literature. Other projects include collecting the complete works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, creating a dictionary of Medieval Latin, and restoring theaters.
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) founded in 1851, when Henry Douglas Bacon donated his library and paintings to UC Berkeley, expanded in 1967 to include the Pacific Film Archive. Modeled after the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, the film archive became a place for cinema patrons, artists, students, and critics to see, study, and discuss the the world’s films.
Audio-Visual Conservation at the Library of Congress Packard Campus provides storage and modern facilities for acquisition, cataloging, and preservation of audio-visual formats. The conservation program exists thanks to a partnership between the Packard Humanities Institute, the US Congress, the Library of Congress, and the Architect of the Capitol.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive rescues, preserves and showcases moving image media to ensuring that the collective visual memory is explored and enjoyed.
The world’s oldest photography museum and one of the oldest film archives. The museum collections encompass several million objects in photography, cinema, and technology. The institution also preserves and conserves historic film.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB)Is a public producer and distributor of Canadian content, a talent incubator and a showcase for the country’s filmmakers and artists. The NFB produces over 50 works every year. The NFB Archives is the licensing branch of the NFB.
The Cinematheque holds an extensive film reference library, a west coast film archive with 16mm and 35mm prints from filmakers across Canada.
The European Film Gateway (EFG) portal provides access to film history documents held in European film archives and cinematheques: photographs, posters, programs, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials. The EFG reveals European filmmaking from its beginnings to the present day. The EFG facilitates online access to historical documents and links directly to the archives that hold the originals. The EFG is connected to Europeana.eu, the digital showcase for Europe's cultural and scientific heritage. Europeana provides access to items from museums, archives, libraries and audiovisual institutions, opening up a space for participation, innovation and creativity.
Contributing film archives include those in Paris, Rome, Bucarest, Palma, Bulgaria, Berlin, Portugal, Lisbon, Brussels, Marseille, Bologna, Podgorica, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Vienna, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Warsaw, Milan, Catalan, Wiesbaden, London, Belgrade, Helsinki, Glasgow and many other European cities.
The BFI National Archive has 120 years worth of film and TV works in their collections, reaching 11,00 titles. The films and stills in the BFI distribution catalogue may be licensed for use elsewhere.
The British Council promotes its ideals of peace and prosperity throughout the world in an exchange of arts, culture, and education. Their film archive consists of works made in the 1940s by the British Council.
France's national audiovisual institute (Ina), founded in 1975, is a French-language resource for digitized audiovisual content. Its remit is to, preserve and share France's audiovisual heritage. Ina makes some material available to the general public on their website, and most of their archived material is available for professional reuse.
The collection covers all periods, formats, and film genres. Special areas in the collection include feature films and documentaries (with critical perspectives) from the Weimar Republic to today, as well as films by women, queer artists, New German Cinema, and the Berlin School. The German Film and Television Archive (DFFB) are housed in this archive space.
This archive in Berlin (Das Bundesarchiv) makes accessible to the public moving pictures of Germany’s government activity, such as the STASI.
The Cineteca Nazionale collects, preserves and restores Italian film heritage. The archives operate restoration and digitizing of the collection, reflecting Italy’s Industrial cinema, such as training films, advertising, and other aspects of Italian business and worker culture.
Renowned for film restoration and preservation, it hosts the annual Il Cinema Ritrovato festival and collaborates internationally on archival projects.
The National Archive of Japan preserves and makes available for viewing and research Japanese and foreign films and print documentation about those films. Their collections are available at the library in Japan, but some are also available online.
The New Dimensions Foundation, created in 1973, is a 501(c)(3) educational organization. The foundation supports New Dimensions Radio program series. The archive of broadcast interviews are accessible on their web pages and they continue to broadcast and offer podcasts of each new recorded show. Stanford University in 2007 acquired the backlog of interviews going back 45 years.
The Library of Congress and WGBH in Boston preserves for pFosterity the most significant public television and radio programs of the past 60 years: The American Archive of Public Broadcasting, founded in 2013 by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Programs being digitized date are from the 1940s and continue to the 21st century.
Collections of scholarly works and rare materials focusing on the works of Shakespeare and the early modern era. Founded in 1932 by Henry Clay Folder and his wife, Emily. The facility has a performance space, often showing current interpretations of early modern theater. the library is also home to the Folger Institute, founded in 1971, which offers varying levels of research fellowships. Aside from the fellowships, anyone 18 or older may use the research facilities by first applying for a Folger Researcher ID.
Warner Communications donated material to University of Southern California (USC) in 1977. This is not an archive of motion picture reels, but of the film-studio production documents from story acquisition through script, production notes, contributions of actors, directors, producers and writers, to theatrical release and publicity. The archive is open to the public by first filling out a WBA research request (available on their website) and making an appointment.