Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Use of Data
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The European Film Gateway (EFG) is an online portal providing centralized access to the digitized holdings of historical European film documents from archives and cinematheques across Europe. It originated as a three-year EU-funded project running from September 2008 to August 2011, coordinated by the Deutsches Filminstitut (DIF, now DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum) and initiated by the Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE) and the Europeana Foundation. The project was funded under the European Commission's eContentplus program and involved 22 partner organizations from 16 European countries. The portal has been in continuous operation since 2011 and has expanded its contributing archive network steadily since launch.
The EFG provides access to over 700,000 film historical documents from more than 58 contributing archives across more than 25 countries. Its holdings include film stills, set photographs, posters, set drawings, portrait photographs, scripts, correspondence, censorship documents and film visa rulings, out-of-print books, film programs and reviews, newsreels, documentaries, commercials, and feature films. Two special collections deserve particular note: the EFG1914 collection, focusing on approximately 3,000 film titles from the World War I period digitized through a follow-up EU project (2012–2014), and the VICTOR-E collection of approximately 600 titles depicting post-World War II reconstruction efforts in Europe.
The EFG portal at europeanfilmgateway.eu is freely accessible online 24 hours a day. Users can search by people, film titles, or keywords across all contributing archive collections simultaneously. The portal links directly to the contributing archives that hold original materials for researcher access. EFG is also a major data contributor to Europeana, the EU's digital cultural heritage platform.
The EFG is coordinated by DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, based in Frankfurt am Main. Contributing archives include major national and regional film archives from across Europe, all of which are non-profit institutions committed to preserving and providing access to film heritage.