Managing all these different materials involves all kinds of specializations. A film is stored under different archival conditions than a movie poster, so each of the depots has its own climate settings. Nearly all the depots today are in our new Collection Centre.
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The Eye collection dates back to 1946, when the first predecessor of Eye was founded: the Nederlands Historisch Filmarchief. In 1952, this became the Dutch Filmmuseum, and since 2010 we are Eye Filmmuseum.
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Some insights about the practice of VJing: An interview with Rossella Catanese
still from the Bits & Pieces collection
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Composing the Score for The Brilliant Biograph
Daan van den Hurk works on his score for The Brilliant Biograph
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Queen Máxima visits Eye to celebrate 75th anniversary
Queen Máxima visits Eye (© Hans Boddeke)
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The oldest film in our collection dates back to 1896. However, we do not exclusively acquire and preserve films, but a range of different materials – from movie posters to projection equipment. The focus is on films and objects that say something about Dutch film culture; a copy of virtually all Dutch films that come out each year is included in the collection.
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interview
Some insights about the practice of VJing: An interview with Rossella Catanese
still from the Bits & Pieces collection
interview
Composing the Score for The Brilliant Biograph
Daan van den Hurk works on his score for The Brilliant Biograph
news
Queen Máxima visits Eye to celebrate 75th anniversary
Queen Máxima visits Eye (© Hans Boddeke)
© Luuk Kramer
Frame from Le dirigeable fantastique, Georges Méliès (1906)
Still from What's On (Martha Colburn, 1997)
Meet the Archive
Just how big and diverse the Eye collection is, becomes very clear every year when the collection specialists step into the spotlight during Meet the Archive. The year in which Eye celebrates its 75th anniversary, Meet the Archive will take place online. To mark these 75 years of history, the Eye collection specialists have made eight online installments of Meet the Archive on 75 years of the film archives.
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