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Swedish Films Online

24 February 2011

The Swedish Film Institute and the National Library of Sweden recently launched the new web site www.filmarkivet.se, which offers the opportunity to see unique archival moving image material from Sweden that otherwise are rarely accessed.

Preview of the EFG at the Berlinale

29 September 2010

On the occasion of the Berlinale reception of Deutsches Filminstitut on 15 February 2011, the European Film Gateway will be presented to the invited guests as a special preview. The public launch for the portal is scheduled for late March. 21 European project partners, among them 16 film archives, have contributed to the aim of providing a single access point to Europe's film archives' digital collections.

Merger of film institutions in the Netherlands

29 September 2010

EFG partner Nederlands Filmmuseum joined forces with three other Dutch film institutions – Holland Film, the Netherlands Institute for Film Education (NIF) and the Filmbank – to form a new organisation, the eye Film Institute Netherlands.

New Archive Joins EFG Consortium

29 September 2010

On 1 September 2009, the National Audiovisual Archive (KAVA) in Finland joined the EFG consortium, which now comprises 21 partners from 15 European countries. Formerly called Finnish Film Archive, the state institution’s primary motive has been and still is to save and preserve the Finnish film heritage.

Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema: A Collection of “Stolen” Frames

29 September 2010

Several lovingly compiled oilcloth albums filled with film frames, stored in the Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museo do Cinema’s archives, testify of a disconcerting method of appropriating and gathering film memorabilia in the 1920s: Portuguese film aficionados treated film frames, then called “os pontos” (“the points”), as valuable collector’s items.

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