A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typically, a cinematheque has at least one motion picture theatre, which offers screenings of its collections and other international films.
8-529: From the first cinema screenings until 1930, several attempts to establish film archives were initiated in Europe, the US and Russia. As early as 1898, the photographer and cameraman Bolesław Matuszewski evoked the idea of a film archive. "It is a matter of giving this perhaps privileged source of history the same authority, the same official existence, the same access as to other archives already known". The " Archives of
16-720: The International Federation of Film Archives was created, bringing together institutions devoted to cinematographic heritage. On 27 October 1980, the General Conference of UNESCO adopted the "Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Images" which recognizes the need to preserve and provide access to cinematographic heritage. In 1991, the Association of European Cinematheques (ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes)
24-589: The Russian Empire . His father Aleksander was translator of French language and his mother was Stanisława Pochowska. Bolesław Matuszewski had also two sisters and a younger brother Zygmunt. His father taught him French language on advanced level and Matuszewski in 80. of XIX lived in Paris where he studied. In that time he was interested in photography and film. He became an employee of the Lumière company and
32-573: The Planet ” (Les Archives de la planète) were established by French banker Albert Kahn , between 1912 and 1931. Military film archives were also created in France, Germany and Great Britain after the First World War. The cinematheque of the city of Paris, for educational purposes, was created in 1925. However, it was not until the 1930s and the awareness of the destruction of films at the time of
40-1098: The transition to sound movies that the first film archives emerged. Some of the first formal film archives were created: in Stockholm in 1933, the Reichsfilmarchiv in Berlin in 1934, the National Film Library in London and the Film Library at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1935, the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library of Australia in 1935, the Cinémathèque française in Paris created in 1936. In 1938,
48-456: Was active photographer and cinematographer, member of photographic society "LUX" . In 1895 he came back to Poland with his younger brother Zygmunt. Both they opened a photographic atelier at Marszałkowska Street 111 in Warsaw . Soon atelier became company Lux Sigismond et Comp . Matuszewski's firm between 1897 and 1899 cooperated with Polish weekly magazine „ Tygodnik Illustrowany ”. The company
56-618: Was active to 1908 and produced many documentary films and photographs. In 1897, after assuming the position of photographer to Tsar Nicholas II , he used the Lumières' Cinématographe to record the official visit to St. Petersburg , of the French President Félix Faure . After the visit, Otto von Bismarck accused Faure of not baring his head before the Russian flag on his disembarkation. However, this accusation
64-521: Was established. Morocco Australia Boles%C5%82aw Matuszewski Bolesław Matuszewski (August 19, 1856 Pińczów , – c.1943 or 1944; in French texts Boleslas Matuszewski ) - Polish businessman, photographer and cameraman, pioneer of cinematography and documentary film . He was born in 1856 in Pińczów , the small Congress Poland city, which after partitions of Poland became part of
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