FIAF Archive:
Digitized Archival Documents

Dubrovnik Congress, 1956

The FIAF Secretariat in Brussels preserves a rich collection of historical documents about FIAF and the film archive movement going back to the 1930s. A number of these documents have been digitized and are made accessible below. We will keep adding to this section as more documents get digitized. Please note that you can find more historical documents about the FIAF Summer Schools HERE.

Table of Contents

1) FIAF Constitutional Documents

2) Old FIAF Publications

3) FIAF Congresses

4) FIAF Executive Committee Meetings

1) FIAF Constitutional Documents

Minutes of the first meeting of the founder-members, 9 June 1938, Paris (in English)

Minutes of the second meeting of the founder-members, 15 June 1938, Paris (in English)

Agreement for the International Federation of Film Archives, 17 June 1938 (in English, German and French)

Letter authorizing the registration of FIAF as a French association, 25 March 1968 (in French)

Official registration of FIAF as a French Association in the Journal Officiel, 19-20 August 1968 (in French)

2) Old FIAF Publications

FIAF 1938-1958, a brochure presenting the Federation and its affiliates, 1958

Annuaire/Yearbook FIAF 1964

Film Preservation, A Report of the FIAF Preservation Committee, by Herbert Volkman (published by the National Film Archive, London, 1965)

A Handbook for Film Archives, edited by Eileen Bowser and John Kuiper (1980)

Etude Internationale des Archives de la FIAF 1995 / FIAF Statistical Survey 1995, conceived and edited by Michelle Aubert and published by the Centre national de la cinématographie for FIAF, 1995

FIAF News Bulletin, 1955-1963:

May 1955, #1

June 1955, #2

July 1955, #3

September 1955, #4

November 1955, #5

December 1955, #6

January 1956, #7

February 1956, #8

April 1956, #9

June 1956, #10

January 1957, #10-11

October 1957, #12

January 1958, #13

July 1958, #14

September 1958, #15

February 1959, #16

July 1959, #17

August 1959, #18

Spring 1960, #19

Spring 1960, supplement, 04#20

October 1961 #21

February 1962, #23

January 1963, #25

June 1963, #26

Lists of FIAF affiliates :

[The publication Relations between Archives / Relations entre Cinémathèques was an up-to-date list of FIAF affiliates published between 1968 and 1994. With contacts and addresses, it was a forerunner to the current FIAF Directory]

Membership List (Sep. 1960)

Liste des membres (Oct. 1964)

June 1968

January 1972

January 1973

January 1975

January 1976

January 1977

January 1978

April 1980

May 1981

July 1982

September 1983

September 1984

September 1985

September 1986

June 1987

September 1989

June 1990

July 1991

July 1992

September 1993

December 1993

September 1994

3) FIAF Congresses

1939

New York, 25-26 July 1939

Minutes of Day 1 (English)

Minutes of Day 2 (English)

1946

Paris, 15-18 July 1946

Minutes of Day 1 (French)

Minutes of Day 2 (French)

Minutes of Day 3 (French)

Minutes of Day 4 (French)

Decisions of the Congress (French)

List of participants (French)

1948

Copenhagen, 13-15 September 1948

Congress Report (English)

Congress Report (French)

1949

Rome, 23-26 November 1949

Congress Report (French)

1951

Cambridge, 11-16 July 1951

Congres Report (French)

Congress booklet (English)

1952

Amsterdam, 27 October-5 November 1952

Main Decisions of the Congress (French)

Congress Report (French)

1953

Vence, 24 October-2 November 1953

List of delegates (French)

Agenda and Main Resolutions of the Congress (French)

Various invitation cards (French)

Footage of the Congress (courtesy of the Cinémathèque française)

[Congrès de Vence de la Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film]

1953, 39 mètres, durée 3’57. Positif inversible Kodachrome 16mm non monté issu des collections de la Cinémathèque française, numérisé en 2014. Prises de vues : Maurice Sigallas

1954

Lausanne, 11-16 October 1954

List of delegates (French)

Agenda (French)

Main Resolutions of the Congress (French)

Footage of the Congress (courtesy of the Cinémathèque suisse)

1955

Warsaw, 26-30 September 1955

List of delegates

Provisional Programme (French)

Executive Secretary's Report 1954-1955 (English)

Decisions of the Congress (English)

1956

Dubrovnik, 9-15 September 1956

List of delegates

Programme (French)

Secretary-General's Report (French)

Decisions of the Congress (French)

1957

Antibes, 18-28 October 1957

List of delegates

Programme (French)

Decisions of the Congress (French)

Paris, 31 October-7 November 1957  (part II, B.I.R.H.C Congress)

Decisions of the Congress (French)

1958

Prague, 20-26 October 1958

List of voting delegates

Programme (English)

Decisions of the General Assembly (French)

Executive Secretary's Report (French)

International Secretary's Report (French)

Congress's Daily Bulletins (French)

1959

Stockholm, 20-27 September 1959

List of participants

Signed presence sheets

Provisional Agenda (French/English)

Decision of the Congress (French/English)

Executive Secretary's Report (French)

1960

Amsterdam, 11-13 June 1960

List of participants

Congress Schedule

General Assembly Agenda

Main Decisions of the General Assembly (French/English)

Executive Secretary's Report

Executive Secretary's Report to the Special EC meeting on 16 January 1960 (French/English)

1961

Budapest, 11-15 October 1961

List of participants

Opening Speech by FIAF President Jerzy Toeplitz (French)

Provisional Agenda (English/French)

Main Decisions of the General Assembly (French/English)

Minutes (English)

Procès-verbal (French)

Communiqué de la FIAF (French)

Invitation to the special evening devoted to Georges Méliès

Nine-minute film of the 1961 Congress (courtesy of Mme Madeleine Malthête-Méliès):

See also the Hungarian National Film Archive's special feature on the 1961 Budapest Congress here.

1962

Rome, 20-24 June 1962

List of Participants and programme (French)

Congress schedule (English)

Programme of the feature on the historical film(French)

Minutes of the Congress and General Assembly (English)

Congress folder cover

1963

Belgrade, 18-22 June 1963

List of participants

Programme (French)

Minutes of the Congress and General Assembly (English)

Signed presence sheets

List of FIAF members as of May 1963

1964

Moscow, 15-21 June 1964

List of participants

Brochure

Programme (French)

Minutes of the Congress and General Assembly (English)

1965

Oslo, 21-27 June 1965

List of participants

Draft Agenda (English)

General Secretary's Report (English)

General Secretary's Report (French)

Minutes of the Congress and General Meeting (English)

Invitation flyer

General information regarding the Congress and Oslo (English)

FIAF Projects for 1966 (English)

Newly elected FIAF Executive Committee

1966

Sofia, 30 May - 5 June 1966

Minutes of the Congress and General Meeting (English)

1967

East-Berlin, 8-13 June 1967

Programme (English)

Minutes of the Congress and General Meeting (English)

Executive Secretary's report (English)

Congress invitation flyer

Harold Brown's Notes on Film Identification

1968

London, 23-29 May 1968

Minutes of the Congress and General Meeting

Paper on 'Cataloguing Films in Archives' by Ernest Lindgren

FIAF Congress Programme booklet

FIAF Congress Opening leaflet

1969

New York, 21-24 May 1969

Minutes of the Congress and General Meeting

Appendices

1970

Lyon, 26-29 May 1970

Minutes of the Congress and General Meeting

Appendices

Photo courtesy of the European Foundation Joris Ivens

1971

Wiesbaden, 1-4 June 1971

Minutes of the Congress and General Meeting

Appendices

1972

Bucharest, 31 May -3 June 1972

Minutes of the Congress and General Meeting

Appendices

Footage of the Congress (courtesy of Arhiva Nationala de Filme – Cinemateca Romana)

1973

Moscow, 7-12 June 1973

Minutes of the Congress and General Meeting

Appendices

Footage of the Congress (courtesy of the Gosfilmofond of Russia)

1974

Ottawa, Montréal, 20-25 May 1974

Minutes of the Congress and General Meeting

Appendices

1975

Torino, 2-5 June 1975

Minutes of the Congress and General Meeting

Appendices

1976

Mexico, 24-27 May 1976

Minutes of the Congress

Appendices

1977

Varna, 27-28 May 1977

Minutes of the Congress

Appendices

1978

Brighton, 28 May - 2 June 1978

Minutes of the Congress

Appendices

Full programme and delegates list (English)

Full programme (French)

Screenings programme "Britain: Image and Reality"

Two press releases

Draft programme of the symposium on "Film to Videotape and Videotape to Film"

Paper on "The Transfer of Videotape Recordings to Film" (as part of the Symposium on "Film to Videotape and Videotape to Film")

Schedule of the four sessions of the "1900-1906" Symposium

Request for early cinema prints for the "1900-1906" Symposium

Cinema 1900-1906, volume 1, An Analytical Study (FIAF, 1982): introduction and Eileen Bowser's article "Preparation for Brighton: the American Contribution" [note that this volume is still available for purchase from the FIAF Secretariat]

Cinema 1900-1906, volume 2, Filmography (FIAF, 1982): introduction [note that this volume is still available for purchase from the FIAF Secretariat]

Audio-recordings of the General Assembly:

1978GA_01.mp3

1978GA_02.mp3

1978GA_03.mp3

1978GA_04.mp3

1978GA_05.mp3

1978GA_06.mp3

1978GA_07.mp3

1979

Lausanne, 30 May - 1 June 1979

Minutes of the Congress

Appendices

1980

Karlovy-Vary, 18-23 June 1980

Minutes

1981

Rapallo, 30 April - 9 May 1981

Minutes

1982

Oaxtepec, 4 -13 June 1982

Minutes

1983

Stockholm, 30 May - 4 June 1983

Minutes of the General Meeting

1984

Vienna, 3-12 April 1984

Minutes

1985

New York, 26 April - 4 May 1985

Minutes

1986

Canberra, 14-19 April 1986

Minutes

1987

Berlin (West), 17-24 May 1987

Minutes

1988

Paris, 1-4 June 1988

Minutes

1989

Lisbon, 16- 26 April 1989

Minutes

1990

Havana, 19-24 April 1990

Minutes

1991

Athens, 15-20 April 1991

Minutes

1992

Montevideo, 22-27 April 1992

Minutes

1993

Mo I Rana, 27 May-3 June 1993

Minutes

1994

Bologna, 27 April - 3 May 1994

Minutes

1995

Los Angeles, 20-30 April 1995

Minutes of the General Assembly

List of participants

Press Release

Newsletter

Short video edit of the Congress (FIAF collection, digitized by the Academy Film Archive)

1997

Cartagena, 19-26 April 1997

Congress brochure

4) FIAF Executive Committee Meetings

Note that recent Main Decisions of the FIAF Executive Committee (1997 to date) are available HERE to registered members of the FIAF community only.

21-23 March 1946

Paris

Réunion d'information (French)

4-5 January 1948

Paris

Report (French)

16-17 April 1948

Paris

Report (English/French)

21 September 1948

Paris

Report (French)

15-16 January 1949

Paris

Report (French)

Detailed Minutes (French)

28-30 June 1949

Knokke-sur-Mer

Report (French)

22-25 November 1949

Rome

Report (French)

27 September- 2 October 1951

Paris

Report (French)

16-19 February 1952

Paris

Report (French)

23-26 May 1952

Paris

Report (French)

6-9 February 1953

Paris

Report (French)

13 July 1953

Paris

Report (French)

24-25 February 1955

Paris

Report (French)

15-17 June 1955

Wiesbaden

Report (French)

25 September 1955

Warsaw

Report (French)

21-22 January 1956

Paris

Report (French/English)

16-17 June 1956

Paris

Report (French)

9 September 1956

Dubrovnik

Report (French)

10-11 November 1956

Paris

Report (French)

2-3 March 1957

Paris

Report (French)

19-20 May 1957

Paris

Report (French)

4 July 1957

Paris

Report (French)

18-19 22 October 1957

Antibes

Report (French)

10-12 March 1958

Paris

Report (French)

 26-28 May 1958

London

Report (French)

15-16 October 1958

Brussels

Report (French)

28-30 January 1959

Paris

Report (French)

16-18 May 1959

Paris

Report (French)

16-19 September 1959

Stockholm

Report (French)

16-19 January 1960

Paris

Report (English)

26-28 November 1960

Paris

Report (English)

11-13 May 1961

Wiesbaden

Report (English)

22-23 November 1961

Paris

Report (English)

17-18 March 1962

Berlin

Report (English)

21 June 1962

Rome

Report (French)

22-23 November 1962

Paris

Report (English)

24-26 November 1962

Geneva

Report (English/French)

17-19 March 1963

Warsaw

Report (English)

22 June 1963

Belgrade

Report (French)

26-27 November 1963

Paris

Report (French)

13-15 March 1964

Zurich

Report (French)

20 June 1964

Moscow

Report (French)

24-26 November 1964

Paris

Report (English)

28-30 March 1965

Vienna

Report (English)

26 June 1965

Oslo

Report (English)

6-8 November 1965

Paris

Report (English)

27-28 February 1966

Paris

Report (English)

3 June 1966

Sofia

Report (English)

10-11 December 1966

Zurich

Report (English)

4-5 March 1967

Brussels

Report (English)

6-7 June 1967

Berlin DDR

Report (English)

5-7 January 1968

Paris

Report (English)

22-24 March 1968

Prague

Report (English)

21-22 May 1968

London

Report (English)

24-25 November 1968

Leipzig

Report (English)

3-4 March 1969

Paris

Report (English)

19-20 May 1969

New York

Report (English)

25-26 October 1969

Zagreb

Report (English)

14-15 March 1970

Vienna

Report (English)

23-25 May 1970

Lyon

Report (English)

29-31 May 1971

Wiesbaden

Report (English)

23-25 October 1971

Toulouse

Report (English)

26-28 February 1972

Oslo

Report (English)

28-29 May 1972

Bucharest

Report (English)

26-28 October 1972

Milan

Report (English)

17-18 March 1973

Brussels

Report (English)

4-6 June 1973

Moscow

Report (English)

25-27 October 1973

Lausanne

Report (English)

15-17 February 1974

Helsinki

Report (English)

17-18,  24 May 1974

Ottawa & Montreal

Report (English)

26-27 October 1974

Paris

Report (English)

9-10 March 1975

Amsterdam

Report (English)

30-31 May - 5 June 1975

Turin

Report (English)

25-26 October 1975

Belgrade

Report (English)

21-23,  27 May 1976

Mexico

Report (English)

28-31 January 1977

Moscow

Report (English)

24-26 May 1977

Varna

Report (English)

1 June 1977

Varna

Report (English)

27-30 January 1978

Perpignan

Report (French English)

25-27 May 1978

Brighton

Report (French)

 1 June 1978

Brighton

Report (French)

28-30 November 1978

Brussels

Report (French)

3-5 March 1979

Ljubljana

Report (French)

28-30 May - 4 June 1979

Lausanne

Report (French, English)

13-15 November 1979

Oslo

Report (English)

16-18 April 1980

New York

Report (English)

15-17,  20 June 1980

Karlovy-Vary

Report (English)

17-20 October 1980

Vienna

Report (English)

30 April - 2 May 1981

Rapallo

Report (English)

16-18 October 1981

Lausanne

Report (English)

13 June 1982

Mexico

Report (English)

4-6 June 1982

Oaxtepec

Report (English)

18-20 January 1983

Madrid

Report (English)

27-29 May - 2 June 1983

Stockholm

Report (English)

17-19 January 1984

Toulouse

Report (English)

4-5,  7 April 1984

Vienna

Report (English)

12-14 November 1984

Rome

Report (English)

26-28 April - 1 May 1985

New York

Report (English)

2-4 October 1985

London

Report (English)

11-13, 18 April 1986

Canberra

Report (English)

25-27 November 1986

Glasgow

Report (English)

15-16 May 1987

Berlin

Report (English)

5-7 December 1987

Havana

Report (English)

29-31 May - 5 June 1988

Paris

Report (English)

12-14 November 1988

Montreal

Report (English)

13-15, 23 April 1989

Lisbon

Report (English)

14-16 November 1989

Helsinki

Report (English)

16-18 April 1990

Havana

Report (English)

29-30 November- 1 December 1990

Bologna

Report (English)

12-14,  19 April 1991

Athens

Report (English)

27-29 November 1991

Jerusalem

Report (English)

19-21,  25 April 1992

Montevideo

Report (English)

3-5 November 1992

New York

Report (English)

24-26, 31 May 1993

Oslo

Report (English)

5-6 November 1993

Paris

Report (English)

23-25, 30 April 1994

Rome-Bologna

Report (English)

15-17 November 1994

Tunis

Report (English)

30 April 1995

Los Angeles

Report (English)

30 November - 1 & 2 December 1995

Cancun

Report (English)

14-16 April 1996

Jerusalem

Report (English)

23-25 November 1996

Madrid

Report (English)