Journal of Film Preservation - FIAF
Journal of Film Preservation - FIAF
Journal of Film Preservation - FIAF
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source text now used by the archivists, i.e., the catalogue <strong>of</strong> the film<br />
material (two volumes) published in 1982. He had pr<strong>of</strong>essionally<br />
classified all documentary films, feature films and animated films<br />
produced up to 1977 that had been acquired by the archive. The<br />
catalogue contained 965 titles. This catalogue was reprinted in 1998. In<br />
1998 the archive also published also the third volume <strong>of</strong> the catalogue,<br />
in which Mr. Nemanic had classified another 299 films that had been<br />
subsequently received by the archive up until 1995. He produced two<br />
other catalogues, one on the film work <strong>of</strong> Bo_idar Jakac between 1929-<br />
1955. The second catalogue deals with the film activity <strong>of</strong> Metod and<br />
Milka Badjura in the period from 1926 to 1969. In 1995 an exhibition<br />
dedicated to Metod and Milka Badjura was mounted and on this<br />
occasion a special catalogue was published. A catalogue was also<br />
published for the exhibition on the newsreels <strong>of</strong> the years 1946-1951.<br />
• Public presentation <strong>of</strong> archival film material<br />
The Slovene <strong>Film</strong> Archive has presented its films at special performances<br />
in Ljubljana in the theatre <strong>of</strong> the Slovenska Kinoteka and Cankarjev<br />
dom. In other Slovene towns special thematic evenings have been organised<br />
and enabled local people to view films that had been shot in their<br />
region.<br />
The silent film festival in Pordenone (Italy) is the most prestigious international<br />
festival at which the archive’s films have been screened, but by<br />
no means the only one. <strong>Film</strong>s have also been presented on public and<br />
other TV networks in their entirety or partially and within the framework<br />
<strong>of</strong> various exhibitions.<br />
• Physical conditions<br />
Special safety conditions are needed for film reels due to their specific<br />
characteristics. Therefore the Slovene <strong>Film</strong> Archive’s principal concern is<br />
the physical preservation <strong>of</strong> its films. From the very beginning films were<br />
regularly rewound. The situation has improved since the construction <strong>of</strong><br />
an air-conditioned storage facility in 1979. The archive has therefore<br />
focused primarily on the copying process <strong>of</strong> the nitrate films to acetate<br />
film as well as other films shot on inflammable stock.<br />
The Archive <strong>of</strong> the Republic <strong>of</strong> Slovenia in co-ordination with the<br />
Jugoslovenska Kinoteka in Belgrade managed to take possession <strong>of</strong> all<br />
nitrate films just a few days before the attainment <strong>of</strong> independence and<br />
the war in Slovenia in 1991. These had been the property <strong>of</strong> Triglav <strong>Film</strong><br />
that had been stored in Belgrade since 1971. In that period Slovenia had<br />
no adequate storehouse for inflammable and explosive nitrate films. Due<br />
to these characteristics the archive could not ensure special storage<br />
conditions before coming to an agreement with the Home Office about<br />
the storage <strong>of</strong> the inflammable and acetate films in the air-conditioned<br />
underground rooms <strong>of</strong> the training centre in Gotenica near Ko_evje. A<br />
very large number <strong>of</strong> our archival films, including all inflammable films,<br />
are stored there.<br />
85 <strong>Journal</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Preservation</strong> / 58/59 / 1999