Cinematheque

[1][2] Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage.

Typically, a cinematheque has at least one motion picture theatre, which offers screenings of its collections and other international films.

"It is a matter of giving this perhaps privileged source of history the same authority, the same official existence, the same access as to other archives already known".

[4] Military film archives were also created in France, Germany and Great Britain after the First World War.

[6][7][8] In 1938, the International Federation of Film Archives was created, bringing together institutions devoted to cinematographic heritage.

Main facade of the head office, Bulgarian National Film Archive (Българска Национална Филмотека)
Film reels at the Cinemateca Portuguesa , in Portugal
Entrance to the new Tel Aviv Cinematheque