French Embassy to Gift 234 Films to NFAI story
India and France are poised to once again raise the level of their efforts towards preservation in the fields of film and television. The Embassy of France in India has decided to donate as many as 234 films from its library in New Delhi to the National Film Archives of India (NFAI), Pune, this month. All these films are produced in France and are of high cinematic quality and excellence.
An agreement to this effect will be signed on 30th April 2009 at NFAI at 5.30 in the evening, which will be followed by a three-days film festival. Mr. Philippe Martinet, Cultural Counsellor, Embassy of France and Mr. Vijay Jadhav, Director, NFAI will sign the agreement.
The donation of these 234 films, under the international archive regulations, marks the continuation of cooperation between the Embassy of France and the NFAI. The Embassy of France in New Delhi is dedicated to promoting film and television preservation and heritage. In 2003, as many as 88 films were handed over to the NFAI. Earlier, in 1998, the Embassy of France donated 29 films to the National Film Archives of India.
Under the agreement, all these films will be preserved at the NFAI premises in standard conditions and will be permitted for use for non-commercial screenings, research and studies. From motion pictures to television, the mushrooming of visual communications counts among the most significant cultural evolutions of the 20th century. Everywhere in the world people are seizing the possibilities opened up by the visual media to create a vast cultural and documentary heritage. The Embassy of France in India is committed to strengthening the relations between cultural institutions of our two countries towards achieving this goal.
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its time to take a stock.no one is
its time to take a stock.no one is interested in archival value of our audio-visual content.
have been intrigued by the utter
have been intrigued by the utter silence of film critics and film historians to know the real extent of damage to archival material lost in the fire that gutted the godown in FTII,a couple of years ago. It was here that some film material was temporarily stored on behalf of the National Film Archies.
I am aware that amongst those lost in the fire were a whole set of war documentaries which were to be transferred to England,and some early Shantaram films. Now I discover the the original prints of 'Bhuvan Shome' and 'Mrigaya' have also been lost in the fire.
It is high time that the Ministry of I&B, FTII and NFAI should jointly issue a proper transparent report of the loss that was suffered related to films, and other related cinema material and documentation in this fire. And this should be done in the next six months time period. Members of this network should seperately consider writing to the government for a full disclosure of loss. If there is silence officially, this issue will be taken during the proceedings of the next International Film Festival in Goa.
Secondly, a worldwide search should now commence to locate original prints or their dupe copies so that the loss is replaced. Mrinal Sen may not be able to do the search, but the responsibility rests with all cineastes to track down the avaiable copies of lost material whereever they are existing in private or public collections in the same manner when Kanchanjunga' of Satyajit Ray, whose original negetive was lost in a fire (?) or flooding (?) in Calcutta found a rebirth when a copy print was recieved from the Film Archives of Paris.Official correspondence could thereafter be initiated.