Cinémémoire is a collection of homemade movies, amateur and professionnal films. It collects, scanns, documents and archives those films since 1995. Right now, the fund contains more than 900 hours of footage from the 20’s to nowadays, and it is daily enriched by new film deposits. Currently, 400 hours of film are digitized and available to all in the form of records and online videos.
The film archive Cinememoire focuses on the audiovisual memory of Marseilles, the PACA region and former French colonies.
Other than those three major collections, Cinémémoire has images from around the world picturing the daily, family and local life as well as historical or political events, sport events, scientific exploration, travels, or even customs ...
Cinememoire’s archive films
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Collections :
« The Marseilles Film Archive » includes images of Marseille from our film library. They show the history of Marseilles: the deck ferry, the liberation of Marseille, all the major works led by Gaston Deferre. « The colonial Film Archive » includes images taken by settlers filming their daily life. It testifies of the French colonial history in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Congo, CAR, Cameroon, Benin, Madagascar, Indochina ... « The PACA film Archive » brings together different images of the Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur region from 1925 to the present. The town of Port de Bouc deposited an important film fund. « The Petot fund » is a collection made by a collector of amateur films featuring rare footage of the region PACA and Marseilles from 1925 to 1959. « The Laffage fund » includes 16mm films shot by the amateur filmmaker Yvon Lorenzini who filmed villages in the PACA region and the city of Marseilles in the 50’s and 60’s. « The Coumes fund » is named after the amateur filmmaker who has produced 17 wildlife documentaries in 16mm in the 50s and 60s, most of the being shot in Provence. |
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| 30’s Aix en Provence’s fair |
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| Marseille: The deck ferry, 1933 | ||
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Archive Treasures from Marseilles film archive
| Cinémémoire at the Marseilles film archive ! The first Tuesday of each month, before the long film, Cinémémoire presents a short film based on audiovisual archives of the history of Marseille: Archives Treasures Place of projection : CRDP - 31 bis bvd d'Athènes - 13001 Marseille Next projection : October 2010 |
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Volume 6 : 1st Grand Prix Automobile of Marseilles in 1946 Document presenting the first Grand prix of Marseille in 1946 filmed in 16mm and 9.5 mm by several amateur filmmakers |
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Volume 5 : Bal Populaire in Provence On the occasion of a dance hall, all generations come together to dance to the sound of the accordion. |
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Volume 4 : A day with plenty of drinks Callelongue 1935, friends gather to spend the day at the cottage. Program: meal, wine and jeux de boule. |
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Volume 3 : Marseilles during WW2 A Vichyist shows the weight of the occupation in Marseilles and its dramatic consequences including the destruction of neighborhoods around the Vieux Port. |
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> Archive Treasures > Archive Films from Marseilles |
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The War of Algeria seen by amateur filmmakers
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Visit of Jacques Soustelle in Constantine, 26 may1958 |
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The week of barricades january 1960 Week of barricades in the streets of Algiers in January 1960. The scene is filmed from a balcony. |
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Référendum about Indépendance in Algéria, 1962 |
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Independance of Algeria, 1962 |
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>Films d'archives des anciennes colonies > Mémoires Partagées |
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