The Association of European Cinémathèques (ACE) is an affiliation of 40 national and regional preservation film archives from all over Europe. Its joint role is to protect the European film heritage and to assure that the audiovisual records of the past can be enjoyed and studied for generations to...
13 October 2011 – Yesterday, Europeana, Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, launched a redesign with new functionalities. The new interface has more visual appeal and has been adapted for iPads and Android touchscreens, bringing all the benefits of touch to Europe’s online treasury....
20 September 2011 - From 27 to 29 September, the Conference “Importing Asta Nielsen. Cinema-Going and the Making of the Star System in the Early 1910s” will take place at the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt. Asta Nielsen has been the first female star who received international reputation....
19 September 2011 – On 13 and 14 October, film makers, curators and historians, technicians, and producers, will meet at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris to discuss the transition from analogue to digital and its impact on the founding missions of cinematheques : to collect, conserve, restore...
27 July 2011 – After nearly three years of preparation and development, the European Film Gateway – EFG is now online. The portal to the digital collections of European film archives and cinémathèques offers free access to currently about 400,000 digital videos, photos, film posters and text...
26 May 2011 - The Desmet Collection at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands has been inscribed on the UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, a list of documentary heritage including books, archival records, and film and sound recordings that are of exceptional significance for the world. This was announced...
4 February 2011 – Videos and photos from Cineteca di Bologna’s diverse collections as well as the institution’s book and DVD editions are now available online at the Cineteca’s new cultural digital store CINESTORE. Many items offered by CINESTORE will also be made accessible via...
24 January 2012 – Michal Bregant, former Chair of FAMU International, was appointed new Director of Národni filmový archiv on 2 January 2012. He is replacing Vladimir Opĕla, director of NFA since 1992. Bregant_CV
The final report of the Study on a Digital Agenda for European Film Heritage is available on-line. The Study was launched in January 2011 to assess the impact of digitisation for European film archives. It has been conducted by peacefulfish Productions Ltd, subcontractors were Red Cat Technologies, the University of Helsinki/IPR University Center and the
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