Filmarchiv Austria

Geschichte

The Filmarchiv Austria is an organisation for the discovery, reconstruction and preservation of Austrian film record material: films themselves, literature about film and cinema, or film-related periodicals. With over 100,000 film titles, 2,000,000 photographs and stills, 25,000 cinema programmes, 10,000 film posters, 30,000 books, and an extensive collection of apparatus, documents and costumes, it is the largest such organisation in Austria.Research is always in progress on particular topics in order to enlarge the film content, covering all genres from advertising footage to experimental projects to light entertainment films. Of all the existing Austrian productions in the world from before 1945, over 95% are kept in the Filmarchiv Austria.The Filmarchiv Austria is a member of FIAF .HistoryThe present Filmarchiv Austria was founded on 17 October 1955, as the Österreichische Filmarchiv .The first reconstruction of film material by the ÖFA, in 1961, was the 1926 film version of Der Rosenkavalier. Other major reconstruction projects have included the first Austrian feature film productions, those of Saturn-Film; the oldest extant Austrian drama film, Der Müller und sein Kind of 1911; and the classics Orlacs Hände and Die Sklavenkönigin, which without this work would have remained inaccessible to the viewing public.The Filmarchiv Austria, together with Der Standard, is also responsible for the selection and production of Der österreichische Film, an authoritative DVD series of significant Austrian films, consisting so far of 50 parts.

"Am Standort Laxenburg betreut das Filmarchiv Austria die größte Filmsammlung Österreichs. Mit neu errichteten Filmdepots wurde vor den Toren Wiens ein international ausstrahlendes Zentrum für die Langzeitarchivierung des österreichischen Filmerbes geschaffen."