The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film, based in the

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, United States, and founded in 1935, contains works of international

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, focusing on the art and history of the film medium. The collection comprises more than 22,000 films and 4 million film stills. The department's public film screenings are held at the Museum's 53rd Street building. The Celeste Bartos International Film Study Center, also at the 53rd Street building, maintains scholarly resources on film and has facilities for viewing films from the collection for research purposes. The film and film stills collections are stored at the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center in Hamlin, Pennsylvania. The department also operates a circulating film and video library.

Notable films in the collection

*'' Biograph Studio Collection'' (1905–1914) *'' The Country Doctor'' (1909) *'' Edison Company Collection'' (1912–1914) *''

Judith of Bethulia ''Judith of Bethulia'' (1914) is an American film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play "Judith and the Holofernes" (1896) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, which itself was an adapt ...

'' (1914) *'' Blind Husbands'' (1919) *''

Tol'able David ''Tol'able David'' is a 1921 American silent film based on the 1917 Joseph Hergesheimer short story of the same name. It was adapted to the screen by Edmund Goulding and directed by Henry King for Inspiration Pictures. A rustic tale of viole ...

'' (1921) *''

The Call of the Wild ''The Call of the Wild'' is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named ...

'' (1923) *'' The Marriage Circle'' (1924) *'' Moana'' (1926) *''

The Man Who Laughs ''The Man Who Laughs'' (also published under the title ''By Order of the King'' from its subtitle in French) is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title ''L'Homme qui rit''. It takes place in England beg ...

'' (1928) *''

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'' (1964)

References

External links

Museum of Modern Art websiteNational Film Preservation Foundation
1935 establishments in New York City Department of Film and Video Film archives in the United States Collections of museums in the United States Culture of Manhattan Art museums established in 1935 Organizations awarded an Academy Honorary Award {{film-org-stub