EYE Film Institute Netherlands

EYE Film Institute Netherlands
	EYE Film Institute Netherlands in 2012
	Location in Amsterdam
Established	1952; 72 years ago
Location	IJpromenade 1, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Type	Film archive; National museum; Art museum; History museum
Collection size	820,000 objects
Public transit access	North exit of Amsterdam Central Station, ferry across IJ
Website	eyefilm.nl

EYE Film Institute Netherlands is a Dutch archive and museum in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands. The museum collection includes 37,000 film titles, 60,000 posters, 700,000 photographs and 20,000 books. The earliest materials date from the start of the film industry in the Netherlands in 1895.

Location and history

EYE is located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It includes a cinematography museum formerly called Filmmuseum, founded in 1952. Its predecessor was the Dutch Historical Film Archive, founded in 1946. The Filmmuseum was situated in the Vondelparkpaviljoen since 1975, but in 2009, plans were announced for a new home on the north bank of Amsterdam's waterfront. It was officially opened on April 4, 2012 by Queen Beatrix.^[1] ^[2] The EYE building was designed by Delugan Meissl architects,^[3] which specializes in buildings that appear to be in motion, e.g., the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart.^[4]

Projects

EYE is performing a major film digitization and preservation project together with IBM and Thought Equity Motion, a provider of video platform and rights development services. The project involves scanning and storing more than 150 million discrete DPX files on LTO Gen5 Tape in the Linear Tape File System format.^[5]

Collection

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The Adopted Brother by Christy Cabanne and D.W. Griffith. Silent film, 1913. Running time: 10:41
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Charlie in Turkey, silent animation by Pat Sullivan, 1916. 9:39
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Flight tests with the helicopter Pescara 2R of Raúl Pateras Pescara. Silent film 1922. 1:25.
Poster by Cândido de Faria for the silent Pathé Frères film Les Vampires de la côte, 1908
Nieuw Weekblad voor de Cinematografie 1, 6 oktober 1922. Dutch weekly of cinematography.
Filmstar Lilian Harvey by Alexander Binder, 1920's
Filmstar Truus van Aalten by Alexander Binder, 1920's
Filmstar Greta Garbo by Alexander Binder, 1920's
Film restoration