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{{Infobox institute
|name=ABS-CBN Film Archives
|image=
|founder=
|staff=
|city=Metro Manila
|address=Eugenio Lopez Drive, [[Quezon City#Diliman|Diliman]], [[Quezon City]], [[Metro Manila]], [[Philippines]]
|website=
|country=Philippines
|established=January 1, 1994
|dissolved=August 31, 2020
|chairman=Leo Katigbak
|coor={{coord|14|38|22.18|N|121|02|07.79|E|display=inline}}
|mission=
|key_people=
{{ubl|Mary C. del Pilar|Julie N. Galino|Jane Sheila Ann C. Tenorio|Ferdinand T. Manalili|Meliza K. Oca|Eligio N.E. Macatangay Jr.|Froilan P. Tinay|Maria Carmela R. Barbaza|Kimberly C. Narciso|Marco Jerome L. Gatpandan}}
}}

{{short description|Philippine film archive}}
The '''ABS-CBN Film Archives''', also called '''ABS-CBN Archives''', was a state-of-the-art [[film archive]] in the [[Philippines]] located at the basement of [[ELJ Communications Center]] in Eugenio Lopez Drive, [[Diliman, Quezon City]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://entertainment.inquirer.net/18699/finally-a-national-film-archive |title=Finally, a national film archive |last=Nocon |first=Ramon C |date=October 27, 2011 |website=Philippine Daily Inquirer |access-date=February 21, 2022}}</ref> It was a member of the Southeast Asia-Pacific Audio-Visual Archive Association, as well as the Society of Filipino Archivists for Film or Sofia. At present, ABS-CBN Film Archives holds about 2,400 Filipino films from [[Star Cinema]], [[LVN Pictures]], [[Regal Films]], [[VIVA Films]], [[Seiko Films]], [[Cinema Artists]], [[Sampaguita Pictures]], [[OctoArts Films]], Imus Productions, RVQ Productions, Cine Suerte, NV Productions along with the cinema libraries of [[Dolphy]], [[Nora Aunor]], [[Fernando Poe Jr.]], [[Rudy Fernandez (actor)|Rudy Fernandez]], [[Ramon Revilla]], and [[Armida Siguion-Reyna]].<ref name="about">{{cite news|last=San Diego Jr. |first=Bayani |url=http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20100912-291865/Inside-the-Kapamilya-film-vaults |title=Inside the Kapamilya film vaults |date=12 September 2010 |newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]] |access-date=29 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110107111230/http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20100912-291865/Inside-the-Kapamilya-film-vaults |archive-date=7 January 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=del Mundo Jr.|first=Clodualdo|url=http://pinoyfilm.com/continuing-the-dream-for-a-national-audio-visual-archive|title=Continuing the dream for a national audio-visual archive|date=26 January 2011|publisher=PinoyFilm.com|access-date=29 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121124074941/http://www.pinoyfilm.com/continuing-the-dream-for-a-national-audio-visual-archive|archive-date=24 November 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> ABS-CBN Film Archives held the largest film collection in the country.<ref>{{cite web|last=Atienza |first=Josephine |url=http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about-culture-and-arts/articles-on-c-n-a/article.php?i=113&igm=1 |title=Audio-visual archiving |publisher=[[National Commission for Culture and the Arts]] |access-date=29 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101051525/http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about-culture-and-arts/articles-on-c-n-a/article.php?igm=1&i=113 |archive-date=1 November 2012 }}</ref> It was headed by Leo Katigbak.

On August 31, 2020, ABS-CBN Film Archives along with ''[[ABS-CBN Film Restoration Project|Sagip Pelikula]]'' ceased its operations as part of the retrenchment by [[ABS-CBN Corporation]] after its new [[ABS-CBN franchise renewal controversy|legislative franchise]] for the company's broadcasting operations was denied by the [[House of Representatives of the Philippines|House of Representatives]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lago |first1=Amanda T. |title=After ABS-CBN shutdown, 'Sagip Pelikula' faces uncertain future |url=https://rappler.com/entertainment/movies/abs-cbn-film-archives-restoration-project-uncertain-feature |website=[[Rappler]] |access-date=8 August 2020 |date=23 July 2020}}</ref>

==Facility==

The 500 square meter facility of ABS-CBN Film Archives is covered with insulated walls. It has two film vaults: the medium-term vault and the long-term vault. The medium term vault holds [[betacam]] tapes, [[U-matic]], [[16mm]] negatives and prints, and some [[35mm movie film|35mm]] negatives and prints while the long-term vault holds the 35mm negatives and master prints. The facility is protected by a special [[fire suppression system]]. [[Acclimatization]] rooms are located between the vaults and the exit. Before a film could be taken out from the vault, it has to stay in the first acclimatization room for 24 hours and in the second acclimatization room for another 24 hours to prevent damage caused by condensation due to rapid temperature change. The temperature in the long-term vault is maintained between 8 and 10 °C with 31 to 35 percent relative humidity while in the medium-term vault, the temperature is maintained between 15 and 20 °C with 35 to 50 percent relative humidity. The air-conditioning system of the facility operates 24 hours a day. The facility is accessible to visitors for academic and research purposes.

==Digital film restoration==
{{main|ABS-CBN Film Restoration Project}}
ABS-CBN Film Restoration Project was a digital film restoration and remastering project of ABS-CBN Film Archives in partnership with Central Digital Lab. The goal of the project was to digitally restore and remaster select films in the archives of ABS-CBN. As of 2015, the project restored and remastered over 100 films. Restoration cost ranged anywhere between two hundred thousand [[Philippine Peso|pesos]] and ten million pesos per film.

==References==
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==External links==
*Bliss Cua Lim (2 July 2010). [https://www.flowjournal.org/2010/07/pepotem-and-the-archive/ Pepot and the Archive: Cinephilia and the Archive Crisis of Philippine Cinema]. [[University of California, Irvine]]
*Aimee Dacanay (4 August 2017). [https://www.spot.ph/entertainment/movies-music-tv/70954/how-film-restoration-is-done-a00001-20170804-lfrm3 The Art and Science of Film Restoration and How It's Saving Philippine Cinema]. Spot.ph

{{Media facilities in the Philippines}}
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