Europa Film Treasures

Film Treasures safeguarded by important European film archives are finally on the net!

These surviving images have withstood time thanks to the efforts of film archives, which preserve a good part of the world's memory in picture, although it is probable that already 70% of the images shot during the first fifty years of cinema is definitively lost. For quite a while, the chief European film archives have been endeavouring to rediscover these treasures by numerous collective or individual initiatives.

As explorers of times gone by, they have done everything possible to rediscover, restore, preserve, and show these fragile findings that lie idle in every corner of Europe.

Europa Film Treasures opens a new window on this meticulous and passionate work. In collaboration with the legal successors (when they have been identified) and depositaries, you will discover on this website a few examples of these precious films come from all over the world but safeguarded in Europe.