REICHSFILMARCHIV

'Reichsfilmarchiv' or 'Realm Film Archives' were one 1935 open national film archives in National Socialist Germany. Seat of archives was Berlin.

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History

Existence

See also

External links

History

Realm film archives were opened in the Harnack House in Dahlem on February 4 1935 in presence by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels at large propaganda expenditure. It came fast into the benefit of a high international Reputation. As 1938 in Paris the (FIAF) - an international union of film archives -, were realm film archives one of the four initial members were created.
After their invasion in Berlin in April 1945 the Soviet troops took realm film archives into their force and seized all Filmmaterialien. In the Federal Republic 1947 archives for film science the follow-up, created by , stepped that of realm film archives at and in the German Democratic Republic national film archives of the GDR.

Existence

At the time of the opening, the archives possessed already more than 1,200 films, which originated partially from the , partially of the film industry were placed had. By legal acquisition, to a substantial part in addition, by Ablieferungszwang and seizures in the occupied areas, the existence up to the end of war increased to 17,352 films.
To end of war the largest part of the existence, which were stored partially in the bell tower at the Berlin Olympic Stadium, was lost. 6,400 select films arrived into Soviet film archives in Krasnogorsk with Moscow and from there out into the Soviet cinemas, where they were played partially still until 1956. 1955 could take over again created national film archives of the GDR a part of the existence.

See also

★ National Socialist film politics

★ German film history

★ Nazism and cinema

External links

★ Cinema technology as hobby Over the fate of the existence of realm film archives after 1945

★ Harnack house
::'''This article is originally translated from an article in www.de.wikipedia.org (see left).'''