Deutsches Filminstitut
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The Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF ("German Film Institute") is an institute for the study of film, based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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("German Film Archive"; founded in Marburg
in 1947 by Hanns Wilhelm Lavies as the Archiv für Filmwissenschaft) was set up as an autonomous department of the DIF, from which it separated again after a reorganisation in 1956.
On 1 January 1959, Lavies left the DIF and was succeeded as director by Max Lippmann. Dr Theo Fürstenau became director in 1966, and in 1981 Dr. Gerd Albrecht. The director since 1 February 1997 has been Claudia Dillmann.
On 30 October 1999, the name was officially changed to Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF. In January 2006 the organisation merged with the Deutsches Filmmuseum ("German Film Museum"), also based in Frankfurt am Main.
and cinema
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Current projects include:
The DIF is a member of the Deutscher Kinemathekenverbund ("German Union of Film Collections").
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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History
The Deutsches Filminstitut was founded on 13 April 1949 as the Deutsches Institut für Filmkunde (DIF). In 1952, the Deutsches FilmarchivDeutsches Filmarchiv
The Deutsches Filmarchiv , originally the Archiv für Filmwissenschaft , formally established in 1947, was the first film archive set up in West Germany after World War II....
("German Film Archive"; founded in Marburg
Marburg
Marburg is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany, on the River Lahn. It is the main town of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district and its population, as of March 2010, was 79,911.- Founding and early history :...
in 1947 by Hanns Wilhelm Lavies as the Archiv für Filmwissenschaft) was set up as an autonomous department of the DIF, from which it separated again after a reorganisation in 1956.
On 1 January 1959, Lavies left the DIF and was succeeded as director by Max Lippmann. Dr Theo Fürstenau became director in 1966, and in 1981 Dr. Gerd Albrecht. The director since 1 February 1997 has been Claudia Dillmann.
On 30 October 1999, the name was officially changed to Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF. In January 2006 the organisation merged with the Deutsches Filmmuseum ("German Film Museum"), also based in Frankfurt am Main.
Functions
The Deutsches Filminstitut has one of the largest film archives in Germany and one of the most comprehensive collections of material on all aspects of cinematographyCinematography
Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...
and cinema
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
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Current projects include:
- The edition and publication of the censorship decisions of the Berliner Film-Oberprüfstelle ("Berlin Film Inspection Point") from 1920 to 1938
- COLLATE - a collaborative system for the annotation and indexing of archive material
- www.filmportal.de - an internet portal for German film
- filmarchives-online.euFilmarchives onlinefilmarchives online is a web gateway providing easy access to moving image collections from various European film archives. It allows the search throughout a growing number of individual archival databases...
- union catalogue of European film archives - EFG - The European Film Gateway - a single access point to digital collections held in European film archives and cinémathèques
The DIF is a member of the Deutscher Kinemathekenverbund ("German Union of Film Collections").
External links
Das Deutsche Filminstitut - DIF Edition of the censorship decisions of the Berliner Film-Oberprüfstelle 1920-38- COLLATE - Collaborative System for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material
- filmportal.de
- filmarchives-online.eu - union catalogue of European film archives
- europeanfilmgateway.eu- a single access point to digital collections held in European film archives and cinémathèques
- Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main