Cineteca Italiana is a private
film archive
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Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or ...
located in
Milan
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,
Italy
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, established in 1947, and as a foundation in 1996.
History
Established in 1947, and as a
foundation
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in 1996, the Cineteca Italiana houses over 20,000 films and more than 100,000 photographs from the history of
Italian
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and
international cinema
World cinema is a term in film theory that refers to films made outside of the American motion picture industry, particularly those in opposition to the aesthetics and values of commercial American cinema.Nagib, Lúcia. "Towards a positive de ...
.
Particularly important is the nitrate film section; the
International Federation of Film Archives
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(FIAF) has defined the Cineteca Italiana as one of the most important
silent film
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archives in
Europe
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. The Cineteca is active in the restoration of films, which are presented in the main international cinema events and in the screening rooms of the Cineteca.
The Cineteca manages the museum, opened in 1985 at Dugnani Palace, dedicated to the cinema of the origins, transferred and enlarged in 2012 together with the Cineteca offices in the former Tobacco Factory in viale Fulvio Testi 121 in collaboration with the
Lombardy Region. In the same building there are the Civic School of Cinema "Luchino Visconti" and the Lombard branch of the
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
The Centro sperimentale di cinematografia (Experimental Film Centre or Italian National film school) was established in 1935 in Italy and aims to promote the art and technique of cinematography and film.
The centre is the oldest film school in ...
.
Among the other assets of the Cineteca is a large collection of original screenplays and a corpus of 15,000 silent and sound cinema posters. Since 1997, the Cineteca has curated an editorial series dedicated to the history of cinema, the ''Quaderni Fondazione Cineteca Italiana''.
Notes
See also
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Cinema of Italy
The cinema of Italy (, ) comprises the films made within Italy or by Italian directors. Since its beginning, Italian cinema has influenced film movements worldwide. Italy is one of the birthplaces of art cinema and the stylistic aspect of film h ...
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Cineteca Nazionale
Cineteca Nazionale is a film archive located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1949. By law it manages the so-called legal deposit, with the task of collecting, preserving and disseminating the productions of Italian cinema. It is the only Italian ...
External links
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* {{cite web, url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/cineteca-italiana_(Enciclopedia-del-Cinema), title=Cineteca Italiana, language=it
Film archives in Italy