Cinemateca Brasileira

The Cinemateca Brasileira is the institution responsible for preserving Brazilian audiovisual production. In July 2021, it experienced a major fire.

Cinemateca Brasileira
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EstablishedOctober 7, 1946
LocationLargo Senador Raul Cardoso, 207 - Vila Mariana, São Paulo
Typecinematheque
FounderPaulo Emílio Sales Gomes
Websitecinemateca.org.br

Since 1940, it has been developing activities around the dissemination and restoration of its collection, with around 250 thousand rolls of films and more than one million documents related to cinema. It is located in Largo Senador Raul Cardoso, São Paulo. The building previously acted as the Old Municipal Slaughterhouse of São Paulo from 1887 to 1927.

It had the largest collection of "moving images" in Latin America and is one of the largest institutions of its kind in the world. It preserved a large part of the nation's cinematographic content and houses the greatest collection of Brazilian cinema, with more than 250,000 rolls of film. These corresponded to 45,000-90,000 titles among the works produced since 1895. The library collection consisted of more than 1,000,000 documents, including censorship certificates, invitations and a huge collection containing around 3,000 scripts and 8,000 movie posters, of which 2.6 are related to national cinema.[1][2]

In addition, it possessed a large collection of documents including books, magazines, original scripts, photography and posters. Its database offers online access through its website.

  1. ^ "Brazil's film archive is facing wipeout". BFI. 4 August 2020. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  2. ^ Kohn, Eric (2021-07-30). "Tragedy Strikes with Historic Brazilian Cinematheque in Flames as Community Lashes Out: 'An Indescribable Pain'". IndieWire. Retrieved 2022-04-20.