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    About

    Film Atlas is an encyclopedic online resource pairing high resolution imagery with scholarly essays to document the history of film as a physical medium from the dawn of cinema to the present. Facilitated by collaboration between international archives, this dynamic reference, research and teaching tool offers a comprehensive visual guide to every motion picture film format, soundtrack and color process ever invented. 

    The website is a collaboration between the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and the George Eastman Museum, with generous funding provided by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, the George Eastman Museum Publishing Trust Endowment, and FIAF (Eileen Bowser Memorial Fund). 

    A beta version of the website was launched in May 2024 to the FIAF community, with a full public launch following in May 2025.

    More than 600 formats and processes will eventually be documented on the site with over 200 different authors contributing to the text. This digital publication is regularly updated as new texts are delivered.

     

     

     

    Credits

    Editor James Layton
    Project Coordinator Crystal Kui
    Production Associate Margaux Chalançon
    Asia Coordinator Kae Ishihara
    L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation Research Assistant Oleksandr Teliuk 


    Web Developer Jean-Pascal Cauchon (The Green ID)
    Copy Editor Tom Cabot (Ketchup Productions)
    Translators Margaux Chalançon, Kae Ishihara, Oleksandr Teliuk
     

    FIAF Christophe Dupin, Elsa Degerman
    George Eastman Museum Peter Bagrov, Bruce Barnes, Tyler Wallace, Caroline Yeager

     

    Contributing institutions

     

    Academy Film Archive

    British Film Institute

    Bundesarchiv

    Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

    China Film Archive

    Cinémathèque française

    Cinémathèque royale de Belgique – Cinematek

    Cinémathèque suisse

    Cineteca Nazionale

    Columbia University Librairies

    Deutsche Kinemathek

    EYE Filmmuseum

    Filmoteca Española

    Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny (FINA)

    Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé

    George Eastman Museum

    Instituto Moreira Salles

    La Cinémathèque québécoise

    Library of Congress

    Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

    Museo Nazionale del Cinema

    National Archives and Records Administration

    National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress

    National Film Archive of India

    National Film Archive of Japan

    National Film Board of Canada

    National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

    National Science and Media Museum

    Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

    NBCUniversal

    Svenska Filminstitutet

    Tangible Media Collection

    The Museum of Modern Art

    The State Historical Society of Missouri

    Thomas Edison National Historical Park

    Timeline of Historical Film Colors

    UCLA Film & Television Archive

    UMAM Documentation & Research

    University of South Carolina

    USC HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive

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