Movies and TvShows featuring "nitrate-film" theme.

A filmmaker named Salvatore recalls his childhood in a post-WWII town in Southern Italy. Known as Toto, he develops a strong love for cinema and befriends Alfredo, the cinema's projectionist. Despite facing challenges and tragedies, including the cinema burning down and Alfredo losing his sight, Salvatore continues to pursue his passion for film. Eventually, he falls in love with a girl named Elena, but their relationship faces obstacles. Salvatore becomes a successful filmmaker and reunites with Elena after Alfredo's death. They confront their past and go their separate ways.

Limite is a surreal and experimental film from 1931. It tells the story of three characters who find themselves adrift on a boat in a remote river. As they struggle to survive, they are confronted with their own memories, fate, and the isolation of their situation. The film explores themes of escape, surrealism, and destiny, and is considered an avant-garde masterpiece.

Dawson City: Frozen Time is a documentary film that tells the story of the history and cultural significance of Dawson City, a town in Yukon, Canada. The film explores the discovery of a collection of silent films that have been preserved in the permafrost for decades, as well as the Klondike Gold Rush and other key moments in the city's past.

In the midst of war, a Chinese actress finds herself in a state of existential loneliness, searching for meaning in a chaotic world. As she navigates through bombings and explosions, she reflects on her life and relationships, ultimately finding solace in unexpected places. This short film is a powerful exploration of the human condition.

Film, the Living Record of Our Memory (2021) is a documentary that highlights the significance of film preservation and the work done by film archives. It explores the value of cinephilia and the importance of maintaining a film archive as a vital resource for future generations.

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

Decasia (2002) is a documentary film that delves into the themes of decay and nihilism. The film utilizes repurposed footage from the archive, creating a surreal and abstract viewing experience. With no dialogue, the film presents a symphony of images depicting the decomposition of nitrate film, accompanied by a haunting musical score. The filmmakers use this unique approach to reflect on the ephemeral nature of existence and the inevitability of decay.

Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation is a documentary that explores the importance and challenges of preserving and restoring films. It delves into the significance of the National Film Registry and film archives, as well as the process of film restoration. The documentary also touches upon the dangers of nitrate film and the efforts made in film preservation.

One-hour documentary recounts the untold story of the remarkable rise and fall of the Thanhouser Studio, one of American’s pioneering motion picture studios during the first decade of the twentieth century. It traces the evolution of one family’s career as it transitioned from producing live theater to establishing one of the most successful independent silent motion picture studios. The Thanhouser Studio produced and released over 1,000 silent motion pictures that were acclaimed by critics and seen by audiences around the world. Set against a background of the industry playing out in New York, Florida and California, it is a compelling story of fame and fortune, twisted by the vagaries of fate and ending on a bittersweet note.

Eden's Ark is a journey through the dramatic, chaotic, precarious world of botany and film preservation. A journey in danger and poetry, across the ice and the tropics, following adventurers and preservers, and confronting what we lose and save.

Compilation of film clips from 1905-1915, found footage of silent movies and documentaries from the Jean Desmet Archive of the Netherlands Film Museum. Jean Desmet was one of the first Dutch film distributors. Lyrisch nitraat is a tribute to the craftsmanship of early filmmakers, but also shows the brittleness of old nitrate films. Composed as an opera about love and death, set to music by Bizet, Masek and Puccini.

A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja – Fallen Asleep When Young (1937) directed by Teuvo Tulio. All screening prints and the negative of the film were destroyed in a 1959 studio fire. A sequence from the middle of the film was found at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris in 2015.

A short documentary produced by the National Film and Sound Archive to promote 'Operation Newsreel', a project to collect and preserve Australian newsreel films, done in the style of a vintage newsreel.