Cineteca Nazionale is afilm archive located inRome,Italy. It was founded in 1949. By law it manages the so-calledlegal deposit, with the task of collecting, preserving and disseminating the productions ofItalian cinema. It is the only Italian film library that enjoys the right of mandatory legal deposit of all films produced and co-produced in Italy and registered in the Public Film Register held by theSIAE. It is part of the nonprofit foundationCentro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
Established in 1949, based in Rome, the Cineteca Nazionale preserves all the films of Italian nationality produced since then. It arose from the archival heritage of theCentro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, which in 1943, had been removed by theNazi occupiers, losing unique materials.[1][2][3] The films, sent toGermany, were lost in the course ofWorld War II and many attempts to trace them in Germany and theSoviet Union after the war were unsuccessful.[4]
There are 60,000 film titles on file,[5] 600,000 photographs, 50,000 posters and the collection of the Italian Association for the History of Cinema Research (AIRSC).[6] This is accompanied by the restoration of significant works and collaboration with foreign institutions for the distribution of Italian films at festivals and events around the world.[7]
The film archive is housed in the headquarters of the Experimental Cinematography Center of Rome, in via Tuscolana 1524, and in the branch office inIvrea which houses the National Corporate Cinema Archive.
In addition to Italian films, the Cineteca holds several thousand foreign films, acquired through exchanges with film libraries from other countries that are members of theInternational Federation of Film Archives (FIAF).[8]
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