Cinecittà Luce: Documentary and Short Film Collection 1920-1990
>> View collection 3,000 items from a unique collection of cinematographic non-fiction and fiction works, since the silent film era to our days, black and white and colored, short and long, featuring titles of different topics from history to culture, by a myriad of directors, including, among them the first works of great masters like Rossellini, Antonioni, Comencini, De Seta, and other famous names of Italian filmmaking.
Cinecittà Luce: La Settimana Incom Newsreel Collection
>> View collection Around 14,000 items from one of the most famous Italian newsreel series have been included in the EFG, covering Italian cultural, social and political events from 1946 to 1965. The newsreel collection in its whole portrays the development of Italy in this time period.
Cinecittà Luce: Photographic Collection
>> View collection Around 350,000 photos from Luce’s diverse collections (fondi, in Italian) have been selected out of some 3,000,000 photos that belong to Luce’s Historical Archive. Photos date from the years of fascism until the end of the seventies. Covering almost all the topics of Italian life, from landscapes, to politics, war, social life, cultural events, famous people and more, special care in the selection process has been dedicated to film-related events and the Italian dolce vita with all its famous people and events.
Cinémathèque française: Magic Lantern Slides Collection
>> View collection The Cinémathèque française’s collection of magic lantern slides illustrates the pre-cinema era and contains some of the finest and most well-preserved slides still in existence. A selection of around 1,500 of these hand-painted and photographic unique artworks from France, Great Britain, Germany and the USA covering the 18th century until the 1920s is available on EFG.
Cinémathèque française: Photos of the Triangle Film Corporation
>> View collection The Triangle Film Corporation existed from 1915 to 1918. Employing directors such as D.W. Griffiths, Thomas Ince and Mack Sennet it was on of the largest American production companies at its time. By means of around 1,400 photos of the John E. Allen – Triangle Collection, the history of the company can be retraced on EFG.
Cinémathèque française: The Digital Library Collection
>> View collection La Cinémathèque française has a precious book collection which retraces the long adventure of the prehistory of the cinema and photographic and film techniques. The approximately 280 books of this collection date back to the 17th century and can be found on EFG.
Cinémathèque française: The Étienne-Jules Marey Collection
>> View collection The scientist Étienne-Jules Marey (1830 - 1904) used photographic methods to study the movement of human and animal throughout his life. La cinémathèque offers access to around 400 photos from the estate of Étienne-Jules Marey via EFG.
Cinémathèque française: The Muybridge Collection
>> View collection With the serialisation of photos Eadward Muybridge was one of the first who created the impression of moving images. EFG gives access to about 700 images that emanate from the estate of Muybridge.
Cineteca di Bologna: Corona Cinematografica Collection and Early Silent Films
From the 1960s to the 1990s, the Italian company Corona Cinematografica produced documentary films, animated films, and newsreels. For many greater or lesser directors, Corona Cinematografica provided a kind of gymnasium in which to acquire the craft or consolidate already honed competence. Around 150 items from the Corona collection have been included in EFG. Furthermore, CCB makes available a number of restored early silent films, fiction of various genres and documentaries.
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COLLATE: Collection of Censorship Documents
>> View collection This collection contains around 6.500 digitised film-censorship related documents from Austria, Czechoslovakia and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. The documents had been assembled from various film and state archives by Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF, Filmarchiv Austria and Národní filmový archiv in the framework of the EU-funded project "COLLATE: Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material".
Det Danske Filminstitut: Danish Silent Film Programmes
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>> View collection The complete collection of Danish Silent Film Programmes from the Danish Film Institute is a unique resource both to surviving films, but also to the narrative content of films that no longer exist. This collection gives an insight to scholars, enabling a broader insight into the types of films that were made and distributed, even if the films themselves did not survive. As marketing material it is also an invaluable resource for academic research in fan and film culture. Read more about the Danish contribution to EFG on DFI's website.
Det Danske Filminstitut: Early Documentary and Fiction Films and Trailers
>> View collections on EFG The collection of the Danish Film Institute available on EFG contains a number of early documentary films, which display the life and look of the Danish society in the period of 1906 to 1940. Among the 300 films are straight depictions of modern production equipment and trade, as well as more propagandistic titles and news items. The over 50 early fiction films available are a raw collection of short films that give an impression of what early audiences were entertained by. In addition, around 700 teaser previews of the films available in the Danish Film Institute's educational distribution can be found on EFG. The latter collection contains current films that are chosen mainly for their value in education and general audience informative qualities. Read more about the Danish Film Institute's contribution to EFG on DFI's website.
Det Danske Filminstitut: Production Stills Collection
>> View collection The EFG displays over 45,000 film stills illustrating more than a century of Danish film production. The vast collection provides insight into the visual quality and style of Danish cinema, from early silent films starring Asta Nielsen to recent works by internationally acclaimed directors such as Susanne Bier and Lars von Trier. Read more about the Danish Film Institute's contribution to EFG on DFI's website.
Deutsches Filminstitut: Artur-Brauner-Archive Collection
>> View collection Founded by film producer Artur Brauner (*1918) in 1946, the Central Cinema Company (CCC) was one of the largest and most important film production companies of the German post-war era. The company archive held in the German Film Institute comprises around 4,000 folders of CCC's production material. On the EFG, approx. 1,150 digitised documents and 1,900 photos from the CCC’s archive can be viewed. Among them script drafts, screenplays, dialogue lists, correspondence, a variety of production documents and reports, promotional material, film stills and set photos, providing unique insights into CCC’s company structure and into over forty years of work routine.
Deutsches Filminstitut: Costume and Set Designers’ Collections
More than 200 set designs and 900 film costume designs, sketches and notes by distinguished German (film) architects Otto Hunte, Walter Reimann and Hans Poelzig and costume designers such as Ali Hubert, Helga Kischkat-Reuter and Irms Pauli can now be accessed via the EFG. Many of the design sketches represent milestones in their field, e.g. the set designs for “Metropolis” (1925/26) or “Der Golem wie er in die Welt kam” (1920).
Deutsches Filminstitut: Peter Gauhe Collection
View collection From 1969 to 1974, camera man and photographer Peter Gauhe worked closely with German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Over 4,000 digitised set photos and film stills document the shooting of such films as “Händler der vier Jahreszeiten” and “Angst essen Seele auf”.
Filmarchiv Austria: Austria Wochenschau
On the European Film Gateway, the Filmarchiv Austria presents 1000 clips from the "Austria Wochenschau" (1949 – 1994), a newsreel collection which forms today a substantial starting point for Austria’s documented audiovisual contemporary history.
Filmarchiv Austria: Kurt Steinwendner Collection
>> View collection Kurt Steinwender (1920-1972) was one of the leading Austrian filmmakers in the 1950s and 1960s. His first film “Der Rabe” (“The raven”), made together with Wolfgang Kudrnovsky, is considered to be the first Austrian experimental film after the Second World War. On the EFG the Austrian Film Archive presents some of Kurt Steinwender’s art films (“Der Rabe”, “Gigant und Mädchen”,“Alfred Kubin – Abenteuer einer Zeichenfeder”) as well as some of his industrial and advertisement films. The collection shows in a perfect manner that film history does not only consist of art and entertainment films. It mostly consists of a wide variety of "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films.
Filmarchiv Austria: Saturn Collection
>> View collection Between 1906 and 1910, Saturn, a Vienna-based company, produced a number of erotic films, which were the first fiction films produced in a continuous manner in the Habsburg Empire. Saturn produced films with erotic content only – and that was how it advertised itself in different trade publications, publicizing its films in a printed catalogue, very similar to the French Pathé productions, which Saturn sometimes remade in an adult manner.
Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen arkisto: Finlandia Newsreels
>> View collection EFG presents the complete collection of 700 Finlandia-Katsaus newsreels produced between 1943 and 1964. When they came into being with WW II dragging on, the popular “from the front” newsreels produced by the Defence Forces began to lose credibility. As a counterweight to militaristic descriptions of the fighting, they focused on civilian subjects and on raising morale on the home front. As the austerity of the immediate post-war years receded, leisure and private consumption surfaced as themes in the newsreels. The story of the blue-and-white Finlandia Newsreels came to an end in 1964, when the old law supporting documentary shorts before feature films was scrapped, and Finnish television cemented its position as the national channel for news.
Nasjonalbiblioteket - Cultural Souvenir Films
>> View collection The state-financed Cultural Souvenir Films were produced by The National Film Board of Norway (established in 1948), and were part of a public enlightenment programme of the new social democracy, where old Norwegian customs were central to rebuilding a national identity after WWII. The Cultural Souvenir films were made primarily for educational purposes, with the aim of distributing knowledge about traditional Norwegian crafts and ways of living – for example how to make national costumes, brown cheese, or skis.
Nasjonalbiblioteket - Polar Expeditions
>> View collection On December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen, accompanied by four men, won the race to reach the South People. One of the most important documents from this expedition is The South Pole Film, one of four documents from Norway included on the UNESCO international register for the Memory of the World. The South Pole Film is actually three films - three slightly different versions for the Norwegian, English and German markets that vary somewhat in length, and feature intertitles in the three different languages.
