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Use of DataThe FINAS Archive is maintained by the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (Perbadanan Kemajuan Filem Nasional Malaysia, FINAS), the central government agency and regulatory authority for the Malaysian film industry. FINAS was established on 1 June 1981 through Act No. 244 of Parliament, following the recommendations of a National Film Development Committee set up on 26 July 1980. The archive gained substantially greater scope in May 2013, when FINAS merged with Filem Negara Malaysia (FNM) — the nation's film production and documentation body founded in 1946 — thereby absorbing FNM's extensive archive of Malaysian documentary and government films.
The FINAS Archive holds a comprehensive collection of Malaysian cinema-related materials, including film prints, digital film files, publications, data reports, and festival archives. Through its absorption of the Filem Negara Malaysia archive, FINAS became custodian of one of the most historically significant collections of Malaysian documentary film, government productions, and national event recordings dating from the 1940s. The institution also hosts a resource library with books, magazines, and newspapers related to the film industry and maintains a film gallery opened in 2007 documenting the evolution of Malaysian cinema from the 1930s to the present.
Since 2020, FINAS has undertaken systematic digitization and restoration of historical documentary films from the former Filem Negara Malaysia archive using advanced scanning technology, including the Scanity film scanner. Restored films have been broadcast on Bernama (Malaysia's national news agency) and on FINAS's YouTube channel under the Retrospektif banner.
The FINAS Archive and publication portal are accessible online at finas.gov.my/archive. Physical access to archive materials is available at the FINAS headquarters at Kompleks Studio Merdeka, Ampang, Selangor. The institution also operates post-production and technical facilities supporting the Malaysian film industry.
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