Filmmuseum joins forces with Haghefilm Lab

January 1st 2008

This autumn, the Filmmuseum published an international invitation to tender for the preservation of historical cinematographic content. Laboratorium Haghefilm, which came out as the preferred partner, will spend the coming years photo-chemically and digitally securing no less than a million meters of nitrate and acetate film.

Headed by the motto ‘preserve first, then digitize’, the Filmmuseum started selecting Dutch films for restoration and preservation as of August. Eligible are all Dutch feature productions – from the end of the 19th century until recently – as well as a selection of shorts, cinema documentaries, animation features, cinematographically interesting assignment films, and cinema commercials.