Spanish Film Archive
Film resources of the Spanish Film Archive
The collection in the Spanish Film Library is estimated to contain around 70,000 pieces, corresponding to roughly 35,000 titles, both feature length and short films.
Presentation of the film collection The total number of titles currently held by the Spanish Film Library is approximately 35,000. Out of these, 14,500 are Spanish productions, and the rest are foreign. These titles correspond to around 75,000 materials, on film as well as on electronic media. There are also 66,000 reels of film belonging to around 6,500 audio-visual documentaries in the NO-DO archive.
Preservation and conservation Cinematographic registries are carried out for materials and systems with a great variety of technical characteristics and requirements for conservation...
Retrieval and restoration The first film archives came into existence at the end of the silent film period, around 1930, when many film makers and movie lovers realised that silent films, now devoid of any commercial value...
Special collections The Spanish Film Library has a few collections of films of special interest, either due to their specificity, or to their age, or to the fact that they constitute valuable historical documents...
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