- The National Audiovisual Institute (INA)
The INA has turned over to the Audiovisual Resource Center more than 500 archival pieces, mostly television broadcasts, but also radio programs and French films (the press on film). The oldest documents date from 1946 while two thirds of the archives in question are extracts from television news broadcasts and deal with Cambodia during the second half of the 20th century as well as the early years of the twenty-first. http://www.ina.fr/ |
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- Gaumont Pathé Archives (GPA)
This collection assembles almost 250 archival elements covering a period from 1910 to 1988. They come from the catalogues of the Gaumont and Pathé archives. Many are news reels, documentaries and materials that were not retained by the editors of those documentaries as well as their “cuts”. The themes treated are varied: the arrival of King Sihanouk in Paris in 1946, the Paris colonial exhibit of 1931, etc. http://www.gaumontpathearchives.com/
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- The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has entrusted the Center for Audiovisual Resources with nearly 200 photographs taken by the French photographer Emile Gsell during the first half of the 19th century. They depict the royal family, the court and palace (musicians, actors, etc.). Another collection dedicated to the Angkor temples dates from 1866. http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr
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- Communication and Audiovisual Production Establishment of the Department of Defense (ECPAD)
The Center for Audiovisual Resources has received from ECPAD some forty archival elements filmed by the army between 1945 and 1996. They are not restricted to reports on military subjects but also deal with Cambodian traditions and include visits to Cambodia by dignitaries like General Leclerc in 1946. http://www.ecpad.fr/
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- International Committee of the Red Cross (CICR)
It is a question of 16 films produced by the CICR in order to describe its activities in Cambodia, protecting refugees, aiding the victims of anti-personnel mines, ...
http://www.icrc.org/
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- The Lumière Brothers Association
It is a question of 6 films shot by the Lumière brothers in Phnom Penh and in Angkor in 1899. They show, among other persons, King Norodom I, traditional dances, and a parade of elephants in Phnom Penh.
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- Father Ponchaud/Cambodia Area
This collection is composed of nearly 150 audio cassettes the majority of which are in Khmer. Most of them are recordings of the Khmer Rouge radio broadcasts and of witnesses to the Pol Pot regime (Collection currently being in process, unavailable to the consultation).
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- The Cinematic Division of the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts
The Cinematic Division of the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has put a particularly important collection of materials produced by Cambodians in Khmer at the disposition of the Audiovisual Resource Center. There is a project under way in cooperation with the Cinematic Division of the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts to save numerous films and documentaries. This partnership should eventually be extended to other institutes.
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The Rodin museum entrusted to the Bophana center the reproductions of 120 drawings of Cambodian dancers, a series of photographs representing Auguste Rodin drawing in 1906, as well as an album of 50 photographs taken in Cambodia at the beginning of the century. www.musee-rodin.fr
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- The museum of Fine arts and Lace of Alençon
The museum of Fine arts and Lace of Alençon preserves the archives of Adhémard Leclère, who lived in Cambodia between 1886 and 1911 and who is regarded as one of the pioneers of the ethnology in Cambodia. A choice of 70 photographs of the funds is deposited in the Bophana center. www.ac-caen.fr/orne/ress/culture/musalencon/accueilmusee.html
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- The French school of Asian studies (EFEO)
Created in 1900, the French School of Asian studies is charged in 1907 with the Conservation of the monumental site of Angkor. It then undertakes the first maintenance work of the sites, as well as the land and photographic surveys of the old Khmer royal city. The Bophana center presents in image a few moments and characters who marked this history. The EFEO also places at the disposal of the Bophana center a series of exceptional photographs made by Jean Boulbet in 1970-1971, showing the inhabitants of the area of Angkor who found refuge inside the principal temples at the time of the first bombardments. www.efeo.fr
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The famous Roger-Viollet agency places at the disposal of the Bophana center its currently digitized collections which relate to Cambodia. www.roger-viollet.fr
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- Town planning agency of Paris (APUR)
The Center also profited from the archives on Cambodia of the town planning agency of Paris.
www.apur.org
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