Les Fiches du Cinéma digitizes its records and reveals extra than 40,000 movie critiques for the reason that 1934

This mag created in 1934 to chronicle all the works launched in theaters, has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to guide their new database.

The oldest magazine devoted to cinema in France has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to aid its new project: to launch its database. Born in 1934, Cinema Files has made it its mission to look and review all of the function movies released in theaters. A gigantic project when you realize that almost seven hundred movies are launched in cinemas every year, i.E. Forty,000 function films covered in ninety years.

Operating with three personnel and round thirty volunteer editors, the legendary overview ambitions to end up a veritable encyclopedia of cinema. “We stated to ourselves that this history, created nearly 90 years in the past, deserved to be digitized in order that as many humans as feasible may want to have get admission to to it, explains François Barge-Prieur, the president of the association. Each year, we launch an annual, which is the compilation in a paper ebook of all of the evaluations of the films released at some stage in the yr.’12 months.” It became then essential to test all the annuals published because 1934. “We organized them with text reputation to convert the scans into usable textspecifies François Barge-Prieur. Then, we structured a database which will navigate through all of our records.”

Support from Macha Méril and Cédric Klapish

If the subscriptions of Cinema sheets include 1/three specialists and a pair of/three private people, the launch of this on-line cinema bible will attract a new target market, which includes “film faculties, private audiovisual schools, media libraries or cinemas consisting of arts and essays.»

The funds raised for the duration of this campaign may be usedto the improvement of the database, however also to the advent of’upotential application and to cover in standard all of the additional paintings that has been created with this database”details its president. Cinema Fileswhich have collected almost €10,519 so far out of the anticipated €15,000, have acquired aid from movie personalities including Macha Méril and Cédric Klapisch.

To support Les Fiches du Cinéma, you can find the link to the kitty here.