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Chicago Film Archives is dedicated to identifying, collecting, preserving and providing access to films that represent the Midwest. We hold over 40,000 films and other media, including thousands of items streamable online. View our Collections.
NATIONAL FILM PRESERVE, LTD. Mission Statement. The goals of the National Film Preserve are: To foster a love and understanding of the art of film and to provide a festive, educational atmosphere for its presentation; To promote the discovery of new trends and directions in film, as well as to unveil lost masterpieces and unheralded artists of ...
30 sie 2023 · The National Film Preservation Foundation is thrilled to announce the recipients of its 2023 federally funded grants, which will allow 31 institutions across 13 states and the District of Columbia to preserve 60 films from their collections.
Screening Room. To celebrate silent film history and raise funds for film preservation, the National Film Preservation Foundation and Silent Movie Day are joining forces to present a special screening of Clash of the Wolves (1925), a …. Read more.
9 lip 2024 · We are delighted to announce that the National Film Preservation Foundation and The Film Foundation have awarded Chicago Film Archives an Avant-Garde Masters Grant to photochemically preserve Tom Palazzolo’s first feature film, Caligari’s Cure (1982).
14 lip 2015 · With some 1,500 films available for viewing—from home movies of the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair and playing Frisbee in Grant Park in 1973 to dance films by Ruth Page and TV commercials from the 60s—the CFA deserves special recognition for its commitment to public access.
In 2015, Chicago Film Archives received funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation to preserve three short films in CFA’s collections that highlight three innovative programs introduced within the Chicago Public School (CPS) system in the 1960s and ’70s by the Chicago Board of Education.
