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CineFiles is a database of digitized film documents, containing more than 50,000 documents on film history, compiled at the
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA, formerly abbreviated as BAM/PFA) are a combined art museum, repertory movie theater, and archive associated with the University of California, Berkeley. Lawrence Rinder was Director from ...
, at the
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
, and supported by the ''Museum Informatics Project''. Types of documents available on CineFiles include newspaper clippings, film reviews, interviews, popular and scholarly articles, publicity materials, program notes, book excerpts,
pamphlet A pamphlet is an unbound book (that is, without a hard cover or binding). Pamphlets may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths, called a ''leaflet'' or it may consist of a ...
s, filmmakers' texts and correspondence, and many other rare archival documents dating from the early 1900s to the present. Citations are available for all documents, and page images are available for documents with copyright clearance. Page images or links are freely available for over 90% of the documents. In some cases access to documents is restricted to users with a UC Berkeley on-campus IP address. More about this topic can be found on the ''Copyright Resources Project'' webpage. CineFiles currently includes documents on the films of more than 150 major international directors, materials describing silent Soviet cinema, and PFA's unique collection of exhibitor manuals, among other documents. New titles and document images are continue to be added.


History

CineFiles database was created in 1994 and expanded in 1996 with support from the
National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...
to allow the Pacific Film Archive Library and Film Study Center to index and digitize materials from its documentation collection and make them freely available, with copyright holders' permissions, on the Internet. In 2006, a three-year grant from
Institute of Museum and Library Services The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is an independent agency of the United States federal government established in 1996. It is the main source of federal support for libraries and museums within the United States, having the mis ...
(IMLS) to expand the scope of CineFiles. Other supporters include the
Library Services and Technology Act The Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) was signed on October 1, 1996, by United States President Bill Clinton. LSTA is a United States federal library grant program. Its roots come from the Library Services Act that was first enacted in 1 ...
, the
Packard Humanities Institute The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) is a non-profit foundation, established in 1987, and located in Los Altos, California, which funds projects in a wide range of conservation concerns in the fields of archaeology, music, film preservation, an ...
, and individual donors. The website was redesigned in 2009.UC Berkeley IST-Data Services Blog - Spotlight November 2009


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