The National Film Archive Collections

• Negative and positive film materials of national production,i.e. feature and non-feature films (documentary, popular-scientific, scientific, reporting, animated and others) from the establishment of the Czech film (1898) until today are the basis of the National Film Archive collections
• The reporter’s film collection, documenting the life of the Czech nation, the establishment and development of Czechoslovakia in all its time periods and spheres until 1993, capturing significant representatives of Czechoslovakian cultural life, is an extraordinary precious part of the collections.
• It is quite an exceptional fact worldwide that two thirds of silent feature films and all Czech feature films from the period 1930 – 1992 (except for ten films from the period 1930 – 1939) were managed to be preserved from the national production.
• The other part of the collections consists of foreign cinematographies collection presenting the plastic picture of the film art development. The collections of films shot before the World War I, the collection of slapstick comedies from the period 1912 – 1929 and the collection of reporter’s films documenting significant world events are of extraordinary value.
• Also audiovisual collection on non-film carriers has been built since the beginning of the nineties.
• NFA takes care currently of over 150 millions metres of the film materials:
  30.000 copies of feature films
  38.000 copies of non-feature films
  9.500 negatives of feature films
  18.500 negatives of non-feature films
  750 amateur films
  9.000 video -materials
• NFA puts into its collections around 3,500 film materials per year, by which it is ranked among the three first archives in Europe.
• 100 tonnes of archived films is on highly flammable base (nitrocellulose).
• The oral history collection consists of almost 3.000 sound records.
• The other collections contain
  500.000 photographs
  40.000 film posters
  134.000 promotional materials
• 3.000 art proposals
  25.000 dialogue lists
• And the library’s collections are containing
  66.500 volumes of books and bond periodicals
  9.500 screenplays
• 12.000 separators
  905 microfilm coils
  1.330 microfiches
  145 CD-ROM carriers
  17.900 descriptions
• 575 foreign cuttings
  1.200 volumes of the foreign festivals collection
• NFA takes care of about 750 m of written archival materials – personal funds, film companies’ funds; including the Czech film Headquarters Archive (1945 – 1990).

Collections