Journal of Film Preservation - FIAF

La Cinemateca de Eslovenia fue creada por
un decreto del gobierno en 1996. Es el
resultado de la transformación del Museo
del Teatro y del Cine en dos entidades
distintas: el Museo del Teatro y la
Cinemateca. Se evocan aqui las etapas del
proceso: los comienzos de la programación
de películas en 1963, el inicio de sus
actividades y la creacíon de su centro de
documentación en 1976, la fusión con el
Museo del Teatro en 1979 y la fusión del
Museo del Cine con la Cinemateca en 1979.
La flamante Cinemateca fue admitida como
Associado de la FIAF en 1998, y mantiene
excelentes relaciones con los Archivos
Cinematográficos Eslovenos que forman
parte de los Archivos de la República de
Eslovenia, recientemente admitidos como
Miembros plenarios de FIAF.
Los Angeles
The most precious prints in our collections are undoubtedly those which
belong to the three great discoveries of the Slovenian Cinematheque. The
first one is the only original print of Ernst Lubitsch’s earliest preserved
feature Als ich tot war (When I Was Dead, 1916), followed by Franz Hofer’s
first preserved film Des Alters erste Spuren (The First Signs of Getting Old).
Besides these two prints the Slovenian Cinematheque also discovered the
short film Le Jongleur (The Jongleur, Pathé, 1913), which is the only
original coloured print of this film in the world.
During its twenty-year history the Slovenian Film Museum developed a
very rich publishing activity, which was later continued by the Slovenian
Cinematheque. In 1964 the Film Theatre in Ljubljana started publishing
the collection Cinematheque Volumes about great film directors and
important movements in the history of world cinema: to date more than
40 volumes have been published. The first book of the collection
Slovenian Cinema was published in 1981. The collection is dedicated to
Slovenian film authors and to special chapters in the history of the
Slovenian cinema: 15 books have been published to date. In 1991 the
Film Museum took over the collection Imago, which had been founded
within the magazine Ekran. It presents studies in the field of national
and foreign film theory and history: 8 books have already already
published.
The Film Museum and later the Slovenian Cinematheque have also
developed a very rich exhibition activity. Several very important
exhibitions in Slovenia and also in Austria, Italy, France, Germany and
the Czech Republic have been organized. The exhibition of Fritz Lang’s
garden sculptures, which belong to the museum collection of the
Slovenian Cinematheque, was also a great success.
The library of the Slovenian Cinematheque includes Slovenian and
Yugoslav film books and magazines and important literature in foreign
languages about world film history and theory. In 1997 the Slovenian
Cinematheque took over the publishing of the only Slovenian film and
TV magazine Ekran.
The Slovenian Cinematheque has also developed very good relations
with the Slovenian Film Archive at the Archives of the Republic of
Slovenia, which is responsible for the national film heritage and has been
a member of FIAF for several years.
The American Film Institute
Ken Wlaschin
The American Film Institute is pleased to announce the following awards
to American film archives for film preservation. The awards were made
by a five-person panel from funds in the 1999 AFI/NEA Challenge Grant
raised by AFI. Grants have been approved by the NEA and recipients
notified. Major contributors to grant include Blockbuster, The Film
Foundation and the NEA.
88 Journal of Film Preservation / 58/59 / 1999