Filmarchives online
Encyclopedia
filmarchives 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. Since February 2007, catalogue information on around 25.000 film works – mainly non-fiction material – is searchable in various languages – among them English, German, French, Italian, Czech. The database is constantly growing. Where available, streaming videos and screenshots are provided with the respective film work entry.
Since the European film heritage is dispersed across Europe and locating moving images often is a complex, time consuming, and costly process, filmarchives online aims at simplifying the access and distribution of archival films in Europe. The portal addresses user groups ranging from the professional media and film production domain to the area of scientific research. On the filmarchives online website moving images can be searched by content, filmographic data and physical characteristics. Search results provide available information about existence and location of the materials. In addition to the search function, filmarchives online provides contact information to facilitate the access to the moving image items and, if available, links to digital content available for online viewing.
filmarchives online is the result of the MIDAS project (Moving Image Database for Access and Re-use of European Film Collections). MIDAS has been initiated in January 2006 as a pilot project in the MEDIA Plus programme of the European Commission
and ended in January 2009. It is carried out by the coordinator German Film Institute (DIF, Frankfurt/Main) together with institutions dedicated to collecting and preserving the European film heritage. The consortium comprises eighteen institutions – among them the British Film Institute
(BFI, London), Národní Filmový Archiv (NFA, Prague), the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique (Brussels) and the DEFA Foundation (Berlin).
Since the European film heritage is dispersed across Europe and locating moving images often is a complex, time consuming, and costly process, filmarchives online aims at simplifying the access and distribution of archival films in Europe. The portal addresses user groups ranging from the professional media and film production domain to the area of scientific research. On the filmarchives online website moving images can be searched by content, filmographic data and physical characteristics. Search results provide available information about existence and location of the materials. In addition to the search function, filmarchives online provides contact information to facilitate the access to the moving image items and, if available, links to digital content available for online viewing.
filmarchives online is the result of the MIDAS project (Moving Image Database for Access and Re-use of European Film Collections). MIDAS has been initiated in January 2006 as a pilot project in the MEDIA Plus programme of the European Commission
European Commission
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and ended in January 2009. It is carried out by the coordinator German Film Institute (DIF, Frankfurt/Main) together with institutions dedicated to collecting and preserving the European film heritage. The consortium comprises eighteen institutions – among them the British Film Institute
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London...
(BFI, London), Národní Filmový Archiv (NFA, Prague), the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique (Brussels) and the DEFA Foundation (Berlin).
External links
- filmarchives-online.eu - Web Gateway
- MIDAS Project (Moving Image Database for Access and Re-use of European Film Collections) - Project Information
- EFG - The European Film Gateway - Project website
- Europeana.eu - Web Gateway