An archive bringing together holdings from film-teaching institutions, the Archivo Histórico de NO-DO, and more than one hundred personal and corporate collections connected with Spanish film history.
Museums, film libraries and archives preserve different kinds of material and describe them using criteria that matter. Reading their sources carefully helps distinguish what is documented from what we still do not know about film history.
Open storyA film can be understood as an artwork, a document and a material object. Drawing on studies of film heritage and film archive collections, this article explores how those perspectives complement one another—and why preservation also involves documentation and access.
Open storyFounded in February 1963 from Gerhard Lamprecht’s collection, the Deutsche Kinemathek offers a precise starting point for considering film archives as practices of preservation, consultation, and public transmission. Personal, corporate, and institutional holdings show that cinema’s memory exceeds the isolated film.
Open storyA reading guide to understand why films, documents, equipment and access contexts jointly make up cinematic heritage.
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