General

• Filmarchives online - URL: www.filmarchives-online.eu - Web Gateway to European Film - "Filmarchives online provides access to moving image collections of currently five European film archives for cultural and commercial purposes. Partner archives and institutions of filmarchives online include the Deutsche Filminstitut - DIF e.V., the British Film Institute (BFI), the Cineteca di Bologna, the DEFA-Foundation and Národní Filmový Archiv Prague (NFA). By now, more than 4.000 film works – mainly non-fiction material – are searchable in four different languages, and the database is constantly growing. filmarchives online was initiated by the MIDAS project (Moving Image Database for Access and Re-use of European Film Collections). Contact: midas@deutsches-filminstitut.de
  

Britain

• British Film Institute - http://www.bfi.org.uk/. This institute encompasses a library with books, periodicals, and microfilms of early and rare books and periodicals; Britain's National Film Archives; special collections with historical manuscripts, documents and other sources from individuals, companies and institutions; and several other services. The institute is now spread over several locations in London, but will soon be grouped together in a new building on the Southbank.
• The Magic Lantern Society, UK - http://www.magiclantern.org.uk/index.htm The objectives of the Society are to exchange knowledge, co-ordinate research and disseminate information about the history and development of the magic lantern and lantern slides; to encourage and perpetuate the conservation of apparatus and slides and to examine and recommend conservation techniques; to encourage the cataloguing and the exhibition of all existing magic lantern material; to revive and sustain the art of magic lantern projection and to arrange slide presentations.
• HADDON - http://www.haddonhall.co.uk/ - An online catalogue of archival ethnographic films and film footage shot during the first half-century of cinema.
• Victorians Magic Lantern Shows - http://www.magiclanternshows.com/
• The Randall Salter Collection - http://www.poppyland.co.uk/lantern/index.htm
• The Projection Box - http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~s-herbert/ProjectionBox.htm. A Publisher specialised in books about the prehistory of cinema. Contains also a nice museum-tour through this prehistory, based upon a discontinued exposition at the London Museum of the Moving Image.
• The Museum of the Moving Image, London - http://www.bfi.org.uk/momi/ 
• National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford - http://www.nmpft.org.uk/- The museum is temporarily closed, but this website is still accessible."The Museum's renowned collection includes more than three million items of historical, social and cultural value. These include three key 'firsts': the world's first negative, the earliest television footage and what is regarded as the world's first example of moving pictures – Louis Le Prince's 1888 film of Leeds Bridge. Alongside this you will find the Playschool toys, Europe's first gallery dedicated to digital media, its longest-established IMAX cinema and the only publicly accessible Cinerama cinema in the world."
• The National Fairground Archive - http://www.shef.ac.uk/nfa/ - “The National Fairground Archive (NFA) was inaugurated by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Sheffield in 1994, with the support of the Showmen's Guild of Great Britain and the Fairground Association of Great Britain. Housed in the Main Library, it is a unique collection of photographic, printed, manuscript and audiovisual material covering all aspects of the culture of travelling show people, their organisation as a community, their social history and everyday life; and the artefacts and machinery of fairgrounds. The NFA collections are continuing to grow: there are now over 30,000 images in the photographic collection, in addition to audio and video material, journals and magazines, and nearly 300 monographs. The collection also includes a unique body of fairground ephemera (programmes, handbills, posters, charters and proclamations, plans and drawings).”
• The Complete History of Discovery of Cinematography - http://www.precinemahistory.net/ - Links for those interested in the history and pré-history of the cinema. Links very detailed timeline charting the development of optical entertainments from the earliest times to 1900.
• Charles Urban, Motion Pictures Pionner - http://www.charlesurban.com/ - By Luke McKernan, GB (The life of a pioneer, (1867-1942).
• Imperial War Museum - IWM Collections- http://collections.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.00g004 - War film collection from the beginning of the cinema to nowadays.
• Vintage Film Home Page - http://www.pathescope.freeserve.co.uk/ . A database for 9,5 mm films
• British Film Pathé - http://www.britishpathe.com/onthisday.html . A database
• The Bill Douglas Center, University of Exeter http://www.centres.ex.ac.uk/bill.douglas//links.html - University of Exeter, England. (The Center deal with Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell collections on the history of film which are accessible in the center itself from April 1996. The collections contain around 60.000 objects and 25 000 books).
• Amnesty International Video Film Archives - http://www.web.amnesty.org/mavp/av.nsf/pages/video+film+archive 
• Screen Archives South East - http://www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive/ 
• Yorkshire Film Archive - http://www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com/view.aspx?id=37 
• UK Film Archive - http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/faf/faf.htm 
  
  France
  
  
• Institut Lumière, Lyon - http://www.institut-lumiere.org/- This institute, situated in the Lyon neighbourhood where the Lumieres invented the Cinematographe, aims to conserve, store and make accessible a wide variety of materials related to cinema, such as films, photos, affiches, magic lanterns, old cameras and projectors. Further, it organises expositions and film showings in its musem and publishes books.
• Le département des arts du spectacle de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France. - http://www.bnf.fr/ (Department of Performing Arts, National Library of France, Paris.)
• Bibliothèque du Film. - http://www.bifi.fr/ , Library of Cinema, Paris.
• L’association française de recherche sur le cinéma (AFRHC) - http://www.afrhc.fr/- The French Association for Research on Film History. Both a French and English version of the website are available. "The AFRHC is a non-profit organization whose membership includes most of the french film historians and some foreign scholars. The objectives of the Association are to gather film historians, regardless of academic affiliation; to form a permanent forum for taking stock of the current research (especially on french film history), for elaborating new projects and to form collaborations; to constitute a support to make known the specificity of the historical researches in the film field, everywhere it is necessary; To publish in the journal 1895 articles which can improve historical research and to support publication of wider-ranging works about film history, its methods and tools."
• L’ecpad / Médiathèque du Ministère de la Défense. - http://www.ecpad.fr/ecpa/index.htm  - Les collections photos et films de l'Etablissement de Communication et de Production Audiovisuelle de la Défense (ECPAD).
• Les fiches du cinéma.- http://www.fichesducinema.com/spip/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=4
• L’agence pour le développement régionale du cinéma - .http://www.adrc-asso.org/ L’ardc /
• Les indépendants du premier siècle. - http://www.lips.org/ - Web site which deals with French independent authors and producers from the beginning to the sixties (In French)
• Etienne Jules Marey - http ://www.expo-marey.com/ - Le mouvement en lumière (exposition en ligne sur l’inventeur de la chronophotographie, conçue et produite par la maison du cinéma/Mission de réalisation et la Cinémathèque française).
• Cinémathèque Georges Méliès - http://www.alphacentauri.be/friends/Melies/ - Association des Amis de Georges Méliès, France/Belgique (Cinémathèque G. Méliès, Association des Amis de G.Méliès, Filmographie, Bibliographie, etc. – In French).
• Ministère des affaires étrangères. htttp ://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/label_france/FRANCE/DOSSIER/CINE/cin.html - L’espace culturel (Dossier très complet réalisé par le Ministère des Affaires étrangères sur le cinéma français proposant des articles sur l’histoire, sur les genres cinématographiques et des fiches biographiques et critiques sur les principaux cinéastes).
• Alfred Hitchcock - http://hitchcock.alienor.fr/ Site personnel réalisé par Pierre Ficheux avec des extraits de musique, d’interviews et de films.
• Jean Renoir - http ://www.univ-nancy2.fr/renoir/ - Biographie, filmographie, documents et témoignages.
• Alexandre Trauner - http://www.pathearchives.com/ - 50 ans de cinéma, Patrick Sonnet et Didier Laget, France (L’exposition montée et présentée pour la première fois en 1986. Filmographie, biographie, photos, etc. - en français et anglais.
• Cinémathèque de Bretagne - http://www.cinematheque-bretagne.fr/ - Présentation et programmation.
• Cinémathèque française - http ://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/la-cinematheque-francaise.html - Présentation, programmations, publications.
• CERIMES Centre de ressource et d’information des Multimédia pour l’enseignement supérieur - http://www.cerimes.education.fr/ - Catalogue de films scientifiques.
• UNIFRANCE - http://www.unifrance.org/ - La mission d’Unifrance est de promouvoir le cinéma français dans le monde. Sur le site web, on trouvera des actualités, des calendriers d’événements et une base de données sur les films français.
• Forum des Images - http ://www.forumdesimages.net/fr/index.php - Base de données sur la mémoire audiovisuelle de Paris et de sa banlieue, 6 000 documents de 1895 à nos jours : documentaires, actualités, publicités, émissions de télévision, films amateurs, longs et courts métrage… – en français et anglais.
• Gaumont, Pathé Archives - http://www.pathearchives.com/ - Historique et catalogue en ligne.
• Arte - http ://www.arte-tv.com/fr/70.html - Web site of the TV channel Arte with special documentary dossiers on films - Site de la chaîne comprenant des dossiers documentés sur les films programmés.
• CNC Centre Nationale de la Cinématographie - http://www.cnc.fr/
• INA Institut National de l’audiovisuel - http://www.ina.fr/index.fr.html - Sélection d’archives, catalogues, séquences animées, activités de l’INA, actualité - en français et en anglais.
• Domitor - http ://www.domitor.uni-trier.de/ - Association internationale pour la recherche sur le cinéma des premiers temps (présentation de l’association, annuaire des membres, colloques, bulletin, annonces, publications, etc. – en français et en anglais).
• Institut Jean Vigo - http://www.inst-jeanvigo.asso.fr/ - Site de présentation de l’Institut : festival, éditions, colloque scientifique axé sur les rapports entre cinéma et histoire.
• La Maison du documentaire - http ://www.lussasdoc.com/index.php - 800 documents francophones.
• Festival de Cannes - http://www.festival-cannes.fr/ - Base de données consacrées à l’histoire du festival : 22 000 personnes, 5 000 films, 800 distinctions accordées depuis 1946.
• Court-Métrage - http ://www.courtmetrage.com/ - Catalogue de courts-métrages.
• Cinéfilm - http://www.cinefil.com/ - Base de données de 30 000 films avec entrées multiples : année, acteur, genre, réalisateur – en français.
• Cadrage - http://www.cadrage.net - Analyse cinématographique pour cinéphiles exigeants.
• zoomavant - http://www.zoom-cinema.com/fiches/index.html
• Ecran noir- http://www.ecrannoir.fr/
• L’exception - http://www.lexception.org/
• Le Film Français - http://www.lefilmfrancais.com/
• DVDClassik - http://www.dvdclassik.com/
• Série-Thèque - http://www.serietheque.com/ - Base de données de toutes les séries TV.
• CNC Archives du Film du Centre Nationale de la Cinématographie (Bois D’Arcy) - http://www.cnc.fr/Site/Template/Accueil.aspx?SELECTID=614& 
• Centre Georges Pompidou - http://www.cnac-gp.fr/Pompidou/Accueil.nsf/tunnel?OpenForm 
• Cinemathèque de Toulouse - http://www.lacinemathequedetoulouse.com/
• Forum des Images - http://www.forumdesimages.net/fr/index.php 
• Vidéothèque de Paris Forum des Images - http://www.vdp.fr/ 

  Germany
  

• Deutches Filminstitut-DIF - http://www.filminstitut.de/ - The German Film Institutes collects all possible information on film making and the film industry and makes this accessible to the public. Types of data collected include: names, dates, reviews, production news, statistics, box office revenue data. Secondly, the institute collects, conserves and makes accessible films themselves. It constitutes one of the most comprehensive collections of materials in Germany on all aspects of cinema.
• Stiftung Deutches Kinemathek- Filmuseum Berlin - http://www.filmmuseum-berlin.de/ -  "The Filmmuseum Berlin, formerly known as the Deutsche Kinemathek, has collected everything that has to do with the history of film and film exhibition and, to a lesser degree, television as well: film prints and all kinds of material indispensable for cinematic research, including film programs, posters, scenery and costume sketches, photos, scripts, estates, and other kinds of documents. The museum invites visitors to take athematic and chronological tour through the history of German cinema. The interconnection between Berlin and Hollywood forms another main focus of the collection, parallel to German film history. The museum currently possesses approximately 9,000 German and foreign silent and talking films. The other collections include over a million stills of scenes, portraits and productions, 30,000 screenplays, 20,000 posters, 60,000 film programs, admission tickets, filmographical and biographical materials, estates left to or acquired by the Kinemathek, as well as projectors, cameras and equipment from the dawn of cinema up to the present day. Sketches, scenery designs and models document developments in German film architecture from 1919 to the present. The most important collection of screenplays in Germany can be found at the Filmmuseum Berlin. The collection on the topic of special effects / fantastic film forms a further specialized area. The museum also holds documents on German film in exile. The Filmmuseum Berlin has probably the most extensive collection on this topic in the world. It centers around the correspondence of the famous American agency of Paul Kohner. The Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin contains the extensive estate of the German diva, which was acquired in 1993 by the Land Berlin and is now available for research." This site is also available as: Cinémathèque de Berlin / Filmmuseum Berlin – Deutsche Kinemathek - http://kinemathek.de/ - Présentation, programmations – en allemand.
• Goethe Institut - http://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/weg/weg/deindex.htmThorough overview of all aspects of German cinema, including history, literature, institutes, archives, museums and journals.
• HFF-Potsdam- Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule for Film and Fernsehen, Potsdam - http://www.hff-potsdam.de/_deutsch/hochschulbibliothek.html - Présentation, biographie de réalisateurs, histoire de la DEFA et des studios de Babelsberg, liste des revues conservées, articles de presse – In German
• Cinegraph - http://www.cinegraph.de/ - Notices biographiques et filmographiques concernant les cinéastes de langue allemande, rétrospectives, liens et informations diverses. – essentiellement en allemand.
• Quellen zur Filmgeschichte - http://www.kinematographie.de/TITEL.HTMBase de données d’environ 23 000 films distribués en Allemagne de 1912 à 1920, établie par Herbert Birett – essentiellement en allemand.
• Deutsches Filmmuseum Frakfurt am main - http://www.deutschesfilmmuseum.de/pre/ft1.php?id=body&img=3img1&main=startindex&ass=1 - Informations pratiques, archives, bibliothèque, vidéothèque, programme des projections, publications – In German.
• Filmmuseum Potsdam - http://www.filmmuseum-potsdam.de/ - Présentation du musée, publications, les studios de Babelsberg - In German.
• Das Bundersarchiv-Filmarchiv - http://www.bundesarchiv.de/ 
• Filmmuseum Düsseldorf - http://www.duesseldorf.de/kultur/filmmuseum/ 
  
  Italy
  
  
• Italian Film Institut - http://www.italianfilminstitute.org/Site/home.html - "Founded in the year 2000 by a distinguished team of international scholars and professionals specializing in Italian cinema and culture, the Italian Film Institute is the first online educational institution of its kind. Completely digital and interactive, I.F.I. is the premiere resource for contemporary and future generations of film professionals, scholars, and visionaries engaged in Italian cinema and culture. I.F.I. is highly committed to establishing new standards of excellence in a digital environment that brings together education and technology, particularly regarding: Building powerful research tools (digital archives, optimized web access, multimedia and software training); Promoting a lively exchange between local and international schools and colleges through individualized internship programs, film showcases for upcoming filmmakers, actors, and producers; Offering specialized online and on-site education; Developing a diversified resource curriculum including publications, special events, a reference library, and grant and fundraising information for film producers and directors (...)." (Links under construction May 2007).
• International Museum of Cinema and Entertainement, Rome (MICS) - http://www.lasernet.it/mics/home.html- The Museum's collections consist of: 5.000 films, mostly rare and in many cases unique; 2.000.000 photos from 1850 to today; publications on history, criticism and technical aspects of cinema and television; thousands of epoch posters, objects, rare documents, books and magazines; a vast video archive in various formats. The museum organises: projections; shows; conferences; specialized publications; cinema labs; restorations and reproductions; consultations; researches; productions for cinema and television; others specialized services. "Since 1982, the M.I.C.S. organizes the International Week of silent films that presents, every year, many rare antique films and museum articles of particular historical importance. During that Week, moreover, complementary meetings and demonstrations take place, with attendence of personalities of cinema, culture and politics."
• Istituto Luce - http://www.luce.it/istitutoluce/index.htm and the Historical Archive - http://ricerca.archivioluce.com/h3/h3.exe/a1/fric_avanzata
• Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) - http://www.csc-cinematografia.it/csc/pages/homepage.php, "...con oltre 30.000 film, 500.000 foto, 50.000 volumi e una ingente massa di sceneggiature, manifesti, documentazione varia e la sua imponente opera di conservazione e restauro di film, è certamente il più importante giacimento culturale cinematografico italiano, e uno dei maggiori del mondo. Il Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia è l'Ente pubblico italiano destinato all'approfondimento e alla diffusione della cultura cinematografica ed ha sessant'anni. Continene, fra l'altro la Cineteca Nazionale, una sezione editoriale (fra le pubbblicazioni, nel corso di sessant'anni, la storica rivista "Bianco e Nero", l'Enciclopedia del cinema Filmlexicon e molte decine di volumi), la Biblioteca "Luigi Chiarini" (la più grande biblioteca pubbblica italiana specializzata in cinema e molto fornita anche nel settore dello spettacolo in genere), arricchita dal patrimonio della Fototeca e la Manifestoteca e la celebre Scuola di Cinema, nelle cui aule sono passati e si sono diplomati mugliaia di allievi tra cui moltissimi divenuti poi famosi ed apprezzati professionisti. Animazione - http://www.csc-cinematografia.it/animazione/index.htm
• The National Museum of Cinema - Archives of cinema, photography and image - http://www.museonazionaledelcinema.org/en/index.php ( Via Montebello, 15 – 10124 Turin - Itay, Tel. +39 011 8138.511 - Fax +39 011 8398.501 - info@museocinema.it - COLLECTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
  Fax +39 011 8122.503 0 - POSTER COLLECTIONFax +39 011 8398.503 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT - Fax +39 011 8138.530
  didattica@museocinema.it - ARCHIVES - Carla Ceresa - ceresa@museocinema.it - FILM PROGRAMMING - Fax +39 011 8138.530
  programmazione@museocinema.it - FILM LIBRARY - Via Sospello, 195/a – 10124 Turin - Itay, Fax +39 011 2269.457 - cineteca@museocinema.it - MARIO GROMO LIBRARY, Via San Pietro in Vincoli, 28 – 10152 Turin - Itay, Tel. +39 011 8138.590-591-592 - Fax +39 011 5214.784. biblioteca@museocinema.it - NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CINEMA - (MOLE ANTONELLIANA) - Via Montebello, 20 – 10124 Turin - Itay
  Tel. +39 011 8138.560-561 - Fax +39 011 812.57.38
• The Minici Zotti Collection, Padua (IT) - http://www.minicizotti.it/html/english/intro.html - Also available at http://www.museocinema.it/ - Website of a museum on the prehistory of cinema "This "museum of magic visions" is unique in the panorama of Italian private collections. It includes optical instruments and toys, rare iconographical and bibliographical materials, musical instruments and, above all, a great number of Magic Lanterns and Magic Lantern Slides, which document the enchanting journey of still and animated images, from the 1700s to the beginning of the Cinematograph. Specific sections are devoted to photography, stereoscopy and to different varieties of Magic Lanterns: toy-Lanterns, scientific and professionals Lanterns, used in performances throughout the 19th century. Among the most significant pieces of the Collection: a complete Javanese Shadow Theater (end of the 19th century); the Megaletoscopio 'Privilegiato', patented by Carlo Ponti, optician in Venice, in 1862; the J.H. Steward tri-unial and bi-unial lantern; the W.Tyler bi-unial lantern; the Philip Harris & Co. Scientific Lantern; a pair of magic lanterns side by side with a mechanical dissolver and the Walter Gibbons Cinematograph-Lantern, suited for the projection of both slides and films. Some important optical instruments have been accurately reconstructed to give visitors the possibility trying them: the Canaletto's Camera Obscura, the 'Mondo Niovo', portrayed in a 18th century engraving by Gaetano Zompini an the Daguerre's Diorama."
• Cineteca del Commune di Bologne - http://www.cinetecadibologna.it/ - "Nata negli anni Sessanta, dal 1989 membro effettivo della Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), e, dalla sua creazione, dell’ Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE), la Cineteca di Bologna è autonoma istituzione comunale dal 1995. Nell’estate del 2000 è iniziata, con l’inaugurazione della nuova sede di via Riva di Reno, una stagione di rielaborazione dell’attività e dei progetti, culminata il 28 giugno 2003 con il trasferimento della Biblioteca e delle collezioni non filmiche e l’apertura di due nuove sale cinematografiche negli spazi dell’area ex-Macello."
• Archivio Nazionale Cinemategrafico della Resistenza (ANCR) - http://www.ancr.to.it/ 
• Cineteca Sarda - http://web.tiscali.it/natvirdis/ 
• Cineteca Del Friuli - http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/ 
• RAI - Teche - http://www.teche.rai.it/ - Library of television programs produced by the National Italian television RAI - ("Inquiries about searches, duplication, and viewing of nationally aired television programs are to be sent to Direzione Teche (Libraries Department), Customer Service sector, Via Col di Lana 8 - 00195 Rome - E-mail service@rai.it - fax 0636226217 (hours 9am-7pm Monday through Friday). Inquiries from judicial authorities or motivated by dispute situations are to be sent to Direzione Affari Legali (Legal Affairs Office) - Viale Mazzini 14 - 00195 Rome - fax 063200558. Inquiries concerning regionally aired programs are to be sent to the local Rai offices. [... ] The Libraries Department is authorized to provide a materials consulting, search, and duplication service on the basis of a price list for the reimbursement of the specific expenses incurred for each request, but not for profit, not to private users, [...] The material supplied is that of non-repeatable utility (therefore not including films and serials) of which Rai has full ownership of rights, and is supplied in digital, low bit rate format (ASF 172 Kbps) or analog format with a technological protection so that it cannot be reused for commercial purposes. The Rai Libraries 'Customer Service' will provide, to whoever so requests, the details concerning costs (the rates are particularly advantageous for schools and universities), the processing time, the procedures for access to the company's premises for consultation of the catalogues, and all necessary information and explanations. The Libraries Department produces promotional film clips using archive material under the supervision of compiling operators Marcella Mosseddu, Daniela Piccioni, and Silvana Palumbieri: these include our live channels. "
  

Macedonia :

• Les Frères Manaki - http://www.unet.com.mk/manaki97/manaki_e.htm - Pionniers du cinéma macédonien – en macédonien et en anglais.

Poland :

• Polish Film Database - http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php Base de données sur les films polonais – en polonais.
• Archives of Audio-Visual recording (in English)- http://www.piasa.org/polisharchives/warsawavr.html 

Finland :

• The Finnish Film Archive - http://www.sea.fi/ - Présentation de cette institution, ses publications - en anglais et finlandais.

Netherlands :

• Nederland Film Museum - http://www.filmmuseum.nl/ (Dutch).
• Universiteit van Tilburg - http://www.uvt.nl/diensten/bibliotheek/collecties/brabant/beeldengeluid/ 

Norvway :

• Norks Filminstitut - http://www.nfi.no/splash.html

Spain :

• Cinéma of Studies at the University of Barcelona - http://www.swcp.com/~gigicarl/index.html
• Historia y critica del cinema espanol- http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portal/LGB/enlaces_art.shtml
• CGAI Centro Galego De Arte Das Imaxe - http://www.cgai.org/ - Portal : Database articles.
•  Cine en Cataluña - http://www.xtec.net/~xripoll/hcinec4.htm - Historia del cine en Cataluña.
  

Russia :

• Kinoglaz - www.kinoglaz.fr/liens_cinema.htm (In French)
• Musée du cinema de Moscou - http://www.museikino.ru/ - Cinemathèque (In Russian and English)
• Grosfilmofond- http://www.aha.ru/~filmfond/ - (In Russian)
• Russian Archives Online - http://www.abamedia.com/rao/archives/rgakfd/index.html - (in English) - The Krasnogorsk Archive's film collection documents the entire history of Russian filmmaking, beginning with footage of the 1896 coronation of Czar Nicholas II shot by Kamill Serf, a cameraman for the pioneering Lumiere Brothers. Compiling another 1,000 films before 1917, the Archive was then nationalized and became the repository of all films documenting the October Revolution and events that followed. Known then as the Central Film and Photo Archive, the collection was installed on the grounds of the Lefortov Palace in 1928, and in 1936 was moved to its present location in the town of Krasnogorsk near Moscow.

Belgium :

• Cinémathèque Royale (French and Dutch) - http://www.cinematheque.be/  

Romania :

• Cinemataca Rumana - http://www.cncinema.abt.ro/ 

Slovenia :

• Archiv Republike Slovenije - http://www.cncinema.abt.ro/ 

Belarus :

• BELARUSIAN STATE ARCHIVES OF FILMS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND SOUND RECORDINGS - http://archives.gov.by/EArh/Erx_dzerginsk.htm 

Luxembourg :

• Centre Nationale de l’audio-visuel - http://www.cna.public.lu/ 
• Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg - http://www.vdl.lu/Cin%C3%A9math%C3%A8que-id-1475628.html    
  
  Suisse :


• Cinemathèque Suisse - http://www.cinematheque.ch/ 

Austria

• A Short History of Klagenfurth, Austria - :http://www.kinogeschichte.at/summary.htm - Naissance du cinéma en Autriche – (In German with abstrcats in French)
• FAI -Film Archiv Interaktiv- http://www-sci.uni-klu.ac.at/projects/fai/ 

Czech Republic 

• Bohuslav Martinu Institute : Audiovisual Archive - :http://www.martinu.cz/novinky.php (In Cczech and English)

Danemark :

• Danish Film Institute - http://www.dfi.dk/forside.htm  (In Danish and English)

Greece :

• Greek Film Archiv- http://www.tte.gr/ 

Turkey:

• Turkish Film and Television Institute - http://mediaccess.msu.edu.tr/services/stm/stm.html 

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The Film History Index was created in September 2000 as part of the WWW VL History Network.

About the WWW VL History Network

The World Wide Web Virtual Library History Network is a collection of subject related Websites maintained by institutions throughout the world, each administering a different subject. The World Wide Web Virtual Library History Central Catalogue is maintained by Serge Noiret and Inaki Lopez Martin at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. If you need help or want to suggest any information contact the maintainer here.. For more information on the History Network Project, go to
[ http://vlib.iue.it/history/about/about.html ]

About the Maintainer

.The site was created and managed by Gerben Bakker, 1999-2001.
 The Film History Index is maintained by Frédéric Gimello-Mesplomb, 2006-.  (http://fgimello.free.fr/)
Please direct your notices of new URL's or inoperative links to him here: gimello (at) yahoo.com
Last updated the 10 May, 2007