Culture is allocating ten million euros to digitize funds from the Spanish film library

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Half a million documents, including films, letters and models, will be stored on a new medium

The Ministry of Culture and Sports will invest ten million euros in the development of the project to digitize the funds of the Spanish film library, an initiative that is part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.

“It is the most important attempt in history. It is an arreón for the efforts of the Filmoteca to preserve and disseminate the Spanish heritage,” said the Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, who appeared before the press together with the director of the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA) of the Ministry of Culture, Beatriz Navas.

The project will digitize half a million documents, including films, letters and models, among others. In this sense, Iceta said European funding was an “opportunity not to be missed”.

The works are organized in three blocks: cataloging and digitizing film collections; cataloging and digitizing in 2D documentation from the film collections; and the cataloging and digitization in 3D of pieces from the museum collections of the same funds.

In this section we have focused on the NODO collection, which was active from late 1942 to 1981 and is the largest archive of documentary images of the 20th century in Spain, consisting of 70,000 rolls of film on photochemical support. In the project, 30% of the archive will be digitized in 4K, for a total of approximately 50,000 minutes: 3,000 newsreels in black and white (approximately 30,000 minutes); one thousand color newscasts (approximately 10,000 minutes); one hundred titles from the Royal Archives (approximately 1,000 minutes); 500 titles from the Annex file (almost 6,000 minutes); and 250 documentaries in black and white (more than 3,000 minutes).

In addition, it is planned to create an ICAA platform that is expected to be ready by the end of 2023. It will be a means of promoting Spanish cinema and disseminating part of the digitized archive and putting it at the service of the citizen.

Source: La Verdad

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