Old European movies again available after the 2013 black-out. Arte.tv replaced the original platform, saving 194 artistic products from 1890 to 1970
English translation of my article for Eunews
Europa Film Treasure is back. The masterpieces of the European cinema from 1890 to 1970 digitally remastered and collected in the special webisite closed in 2013 are now available and watchable again. Arte tv (Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne), the French-German network specialised in art and culture, started uploading a part of the old European movies on Europa Film Treasure, a special section of its website created for the specific purpose. This is a good news for cinema itself, for cinema lovers and as well as for the European Union, who financed Europe Film Treasure with 1.239.000 Euro between 2007 and 2011 through the Media programme.
Europa Film Treasure is project developped by Lobster Films, a Paris-based company specialised in the restoration of old movies. In partnership with some of the most prestigious European cinema institutions, Lobster worked on recovery, restoration and digitalisation of films realised between 1890 and 1970. These treasures of the European cinema were originally available on a special website (www.europafilmtreasure.eu), switched off the 12th of April 2013, because of the financial crisis that hit Enki Tchnologies, who was the society responsible for the software management. As a result Europa Film Treasure was blacked out, and all movie were lost.
Lobster engaged in a legal and judicial battle in order to regain possession of the films and, above all, to find other partners to work with. Since the beginning Lobster looked at Arte.tv as the new main partner and after a long period of meeting and negotiations the agreement was reached, so both the artistic heritage and the EU money have been saved.
Now Europa Film Treasure is an Arte.tv special section and since January every week new movies are uploaded on the web. "Six years ago - is written on the webpage - Europa Film Treasure staff, under the direction of Lobster Films, started a trip around film libraries in Europe to in order to allow the sharing of cinematic treasures preserved for more than one century. Today, every week, we will put online the most beautiful and most unusual of those films". This is something is already happening. Compared to the original project, Europa Film Treasure technical explanations are today available only in two languages (French and German) instead of five (English, Frech, German, Italian and Spanish), but in return we still have 194 movies. A good compromise, after all.
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Europa Film Treasure is back. The masterpieces of the European cinema from 1890 to 1970 digitally remastered and collected in the special webisite closed in 2013 are now available and watchable again. Arte tv (Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne), the French-German network specialised in art and culture, started uploading a part of the old European movies on Europa Film Treasure, a special section of its website created for the specific purpose. This is a good news for cinema itself, for cinema lovers and as well as for the European Union, who financed Europe Film Treasure with 1.239.000 Euro between 2007 and 2011 through the Media programme.
Europa Film Treasure is project developped by Lobster Films, a Paris-based company specialised in the restoration of old movies. In partnership with some of the most prestigious European cinema institutions, Lobster worked on recovery, restoration and digitalisation of films realised between 1890 and 1970. These treasures of the European cinema were originally available on a special website (www.europafilmtreasure.eu), switched off the 12th of April 2013, because of the financial crisis that hit Enki Tchnologies, who was the society responsible for the software management. As a result Europa Film Treasure was blacked out, and all movie were lost.
Lobster engaged in a legal and judicial battle in order to regain possession of the films and, above all, to find other partners to work with. Since the beginning Lobster looked at Arte.tv as the new main partner and after a long period of meeting and negotiations the agreement was reached, so both the artistic heritage and the EU money have been saved.
Now Europa Film Treasure is an Arte.tv special section and since January every week new movies are uploaded on the web. "Six years ago - is written on the webpage - Europa Film Treasure staff, under the direction of Lobster Films, started a trip around film libraries in Europe to in order to allow the sharing of cinematic treasures preserved for more than one century. Today, every week, we will put online the most beautiful and most unusual of those films". This is something is already happening. Compared to the original project, Europa Film Treasure technical explanations are today available only in two languages (French and German) instead of five (English, Frech, German, Italian and Spanish), but in return we still have 194 movies. A good compromise, after all.
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- “Europa Film Treasures” website disappears. It was financed also by the EU
- "Europa Film Treasures" disappearance cost the EU more than 1 million Euro
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