Filmarchiv Austria, Film archive and museum in Laxenburg, Austria.
Filmarchiv Austria is a film archive and cinema museum in Laxenburg that holds around three million items related to the history of film. Besides the main facility in Laxenburg, the institution operates the Audio-Visual Center Augarten in Vienna, where visitors can access research services.
The roots of the institution go back to 1929, when a film archive was established at the Austrian National Library. The current institution was founded in 1955 as a separate body, building on that earlier foundation.
The archive holds films, photographs, posters, and technical equipment that trace Austrian cinema from its earliest years to today. The Audio-Visual Center Augarten in Vienna serves as the main public access point, where researchers and film enthusiasts can consult the holdings.
Access to the research facilities and film collection requires booking an appointment in advance, so it is worth planning ahead before arriving. For a visit to the Augarten location in Vienna, the same advice applies, and checking opening conditions beforehand will save time.
The archive still holds working black-and-white equipment from analog film laboratories, including hand-operated copy machines from the silent film era. These machines show directly how film copies were made in the earliest years of cinema.
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