Technical Archive

 

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  • Contact

    Karsten Seyfert
    Phone : +49 30 355 910-12
    kseyfert [at] deutsche-kinemathek.de (kseyfert[at]deutsche-kinemathek[dot]de)

    Imhoffweg 6
    12307 Berlin-Marienfelde

    Please contact us prior to your visit to determine the availability of access to our archives.

  • Opening hours

    Visitors by appointment only

     

The Technical Archive at Deutsche Kinemathek encompasses working equipment and devices used for the production, editing, visual review and presentation of films. It gathers a wide range of cameras and projectors, material related to the history of the film laboratories, viewing and editing tables as well as peripheral devices such as light and sound technology and camera trolleys. Also included are instruments used to document the history of television. We also hold a variety of objects related to film theaters, such as historical cinema seats, cinema gongs and cash registers.  

The core of the Technical Archive comes in the collection of early projectors and cameras from our founding director, Gerhard Lamprecht. Special items such as the “Stachow Filmer” camera used by Karl Freund as an unchained camera in films such as Fritz Lang's ‘Metropolis’ (G 1927) and one of the few Technicolor cameras still in existence are presented in the Permanent Exhibition of the Deutsche Kinemathek. 

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