Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection
name: label: Creator
content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from IWF Wissen und Medien gGmbH via Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) Audio-Visual Services in 2006.
creator: label: Creator
content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)
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content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 983 Film reels (176 hours 39 minutes, black-and-white color silent sound, 16mm)
label: Extent
content: Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1926-1973
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Deposited in HSFA in 2006 by Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (IWF) Wissen und Medien gGmbH via the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) Audio-visual Services, which possessed the film prints as the American Distributor for the IWF Encyclopaedia Cinematographica. Films were made by various German anthropologists for inclusion in the Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica. Film prints of the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica were distributed in North America by Penn State Audio-Visual Services under an agreement with IWF. When Penn State Audio-Visual Services effectively closed in 2005, the film prints were offered to the Human Studies Film Archives. The HSFA agreed to accept all the ethnographic film titles in the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica. Since Penn State had no rights to the prints, HSFA negotiated an agreement with IWF Wissen und Medien gGmbH. ; 16 mm film prints.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.2006.02
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Silent films
label: Type
content: Sound films
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Titles from IWF's Encyclopaedia Cinematographica of ethographic films ranging in dates from 1926 to 1973.  Collection includes German language study guides for each film.

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