The library’s most distinctive collection comprises more than 125,000 files on individual films and filmmakers, which are filled with newspaper reviews, journal articles, film festival program notes, press kits, and other documents from BAMPFA’s extensive collection covering world cinema, past and present. Many of them can be viewed in BAMPFA’s film-related document database, CineFiles.
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The exhibitor manuals were designed to aid theater operators in marketing and exploiting films, and give an interesting window into the promotional practices of the period.
One of the library’s most historically important-and entertaining-holdings is its collection of exhibitor manuals from the 1940s and 1950s, and international press kits from the 1960s to today. Highlights include working drafts for films by Bay Area filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola and Wayne Wang, and shooting scripts for films ranging from Casablanca to Back to the Future. In addition to its collection of published screenplays, the library has hundreds of unpublished scripts, including both American and international works, most dating from the 1970s and 1980s. In addition to film magazines such as Sight & Sound, Film Comment, and Cinema Scope, the library also includes rare holdings of early silent film magazines, a large run of the Cuban revolutionary journal Cine Cubano, and many Japanese film fan magazines from the 1950s and 1960s. Read up on national cinemas from Argentina to Zimbabwe topics from architecture in film to the Western individual directors, studios, and film movements screenwriting, archiving, or cinematography. The film library has one of the largest film-specific collections of books and magazines open to the general public in Northern California, with more than 10,000 books on cinema history, theory, and criticism and nearly 150 different film journals. Viewings are first-come, first-served, with no charge. Several hundred titles from our collection have been made available in digital form, and can be viewed on a drop-in basis in one of our two viewing carrels. (35mm can only be seen in our viewing rooms.) Research screening hours are Wednesday through Friday from 1 to 5 PM only. Theater 2 is limited to screening 16mm, DVD/Blu-ray, and digitized formats only. The film library offers two small viewing rooms, each with space for one or two researchers to view items from the collection, while larger groups such as classes may reserve our 33-seat Theater 2. American experimental pioneers such as Bruce Conner, Chick Strand, and Ant Farm share the archive’s shelves with international past masters Sergei Eisenstein and Kenji Mizoguchi. To search the collection, visit and limit your search to the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.īAMPFA is home to the largest collection of Japanese films outside of Japan, as well as impressive gatherings of Soviet silents, West Coast independent and avant-garde cinema, seminal video art, the innovative work of video collectives TVTV (Top Value Television) and Optic Nerve, rare animation, Eastern European and Central Asian productions, and international classics. Viewings must be scheduled at least two weeks in advance to give staff enough time to retrieve, inspect, and prepare the work some titles may unfortunately be too rare or fragile to be screened. All of the titles are stored off site in a climate-controlled vault for preservation purposes. The Film Library and Study Center provides research access to BAMPFA’s collection of over 17,000 films and videos. Viewing carrels offer drop-in access to hundreds of digitized film and video titles, while films and videos from our vault are generally available for research viewing with several weeks’ advance notice.
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About the BAMPFA Film Library & Study CenterĪ great resource for anyone interested in film and film culture, the BAMPFA Film Library and Study Center is open for anyone to come by and browse through a movie magazine from last week or last century read books on film history, theory, and criticism skim through a collection of rare ephemera, press kits, and reviews access scholarly research databases listen to hundreds of recordings of Q&A’s with filmmakers and other guests at BAMPFA screenings or screen something from BAMPFA’s collection of more than 17,000 films and videos. Users do NOT need an admission ticket to access the Film Library and Study Center or to view digitized works in drop-in carrels. To schedule, contact Phone Reference Line - Currently unavailable due to COVID-19. For appointments and inquiries, please contact us at Hoursįall 2022: Wednesday-Friday, 1pm–5pm, by appointment only. All users must abide by BAMPFA entry procedures. Due to COVID protocols, the Library is currently open by appointment only, Wed-Fri, 1pm-5pm.
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