Stopklatka.pl is the oldest

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film

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which provides information about

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es etc. The website was created in August 1996, however, the story of Stopklatka began as early as in October 1986, when the first

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was

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under the same title, "Stopklatka". In December 2012, the website went through significant changes such as

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and

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refreshments. Currently the

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includes 60,169 films, 4,247

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(not mentioning episodes), and 191,950 actors and actresses.

History

The founding of the site dates back to October 1986 when the first radio broadcast entitled ''Stopklatka'' (''klatka'' is Polish for "

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frame") appeared in Academic Radio ''Pomorze'' (Polish for

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) in

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. The creators of the broadcast included Daniel Bochiński and Mariusz Maślanka together with Adam Bortnik who joined them in 1987 and worked on the position of the President of the Board between 2000 and 2011. In 1993 the broadcast was relocated to the local radio "ABC" in Szczecin when its current

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, Krzysztof Spór, joined the team. In August 1996, Adam Bortnik created a website
Stopklatka
as a part of the Radio ABC web service. Content of the website was created by Krzysztof Spór. In autumn the same year Sławomir Cichoń became a member of the group and soon after that a web portal using a custom domain name was launched. On the basis of the legal contract signed with

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, the portal became one of ten Polish news channels preinstalled in the

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4.0 browser. In May 1998, Bortnik and Cichoń, each of whom contributed 50% of the company's capital, registered Stopklatka Partnership. Sławomir Cichoń resigned from the cooperation in 1999. At that point Przemysław Basiak, who cooperated with the company in earlier stages, entered into partnership. Przemysław Basiak’s education in IT, experience in designing and building websites together with passion for films were a perfect complement to Adam Bortnik’s and Krzysztof Spór’s knowledge and film passion. Apart from the company’s main activity which was portal’s maintenance, Stopklatka Partnership started to provide service of designing, creating and maintaining websites for clients from the

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. In 2000 talks with a prospective investor from the industry, PROKOM Software S.A., resulted in the formation of Stopklatka LLC intended to continue the previous partnership’s activity. The

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, PROKOM Internet S.A., one of holding companies of PROKOM Software S.A., later NET INTERNET S.A., received 80% of Stopklatka LLC’s shares. Adam Bortnik and Przemysław Basiak became

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and members of the board of the newly created company. In the middle of 2009 Stopklatka LLC was transformed into a

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due to the plans of introducing its shares to be traded on the NewConnect market. On May 6, 2012 shareholders at the annual general meeting passed a resolution to issue B-series shares and apply for the introduction of company’s shares to trading on NewConnect. On May 31, 2010, as a result of selling a part of the shares by Net Internet S.A., the company gained a new strategic investor,

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TV LLC which in August, 2010, transformed into Kino Polska TV S.A. and became a member of the Media Group, SPI. On December 6, 2010, after the contract with Net Internet S.A. had been signed, Kino Polska TV S.A. became the majority shareholder (65,22%) of Stopklatka LLC. On July 12, 2010, the company made its debut on the alternative stock exchange, NewConnect, owned by

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. At that moment shares reached the price of 4,89 PLN, which was 20% higher than the issue price.

TV licence

In the middle of 2014 the first film channel is going to be launched in Poland and will be included in

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(DTT). One of the candidates applying for the licence is Stopklatka TV acting on initiative of

TV
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and the media partnership,

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. Stopklatka TV aims to offer and broadcast

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, Polish and foreign

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s, educational and opinion journalism programmes. The project itself gained support of Polish film authorities e.g.

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and

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. *

Awards and highlights

* 2007 – partner of

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( People’s Choice Award) * 2008 – nominated for the award of Polish Institute of Film Art (PISF) in the category of Web portal * 2009 – winner of PISF in the category of Web portal. PISF is awarded to people and institutions who give their significant contribution to the development, promotion and spread of film culture in Poland * 2010 – nominated for PISF in the category of Web portal. The winner was Bazafilmowa.pl which is co-founded by Stopklatka. * 2010 �
Stopklatka.pl
is declared to be the most interesting film website (second among culture websites) according to a questionnaire given to 11 Polish media journalists who work with the topic of culture daily (ranking published in the Press magazine, vol. 4/2010).

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://stopklatka.pl Television websites Polish film websites Entertainment Internet forums Online film databases Recommender systems