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[[Image:Carpenter center.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts|Carpenter Center]], home of the Harvard Film Archive]]

The '''Harvard Film Archive (HFA)''' is a [[film archive]] and [[Film|cinema]] located in the [[Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts]] at [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. Dedicated to the collection, preservation and exhibition of film, the HFA houses a collection of over 25,000 films in addition to videos, photos, posters and other film ephemera from around the world and from almost every period in film history. The HFA cinematheque screens films weekly in its 188-seat theater. It also maintains a film conservation center near [[Central Square, Cambridge]]. Harvard Film Archive won the [[2020 Webby Award|2020 Webby Award for Cultural Institution]] in the category Web.<ref name="Kastrenakes">{{cite web |last1=Kastrenakes |first1=Jacob |title=Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards |url=https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/20/21263445/2020-webby-awards-winners-lil-nas-x-nasa-jon-krasinski |website=The Verge |access-date=22 May 2020 |language=en |date=20 May 2020}}</ref>

==History==
The archive was founded in 1979 by [[Robert Gardner (anthropologist)|Robert Gardner]], [[ Vlada Petrić | Vlada K. Petric ]] and [[Stanley Cavell]] in Harvard's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, with grants from [[Henry Luce|the Henry Luce Foundation]] and the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]]. It opened on March 16, 1979 with a screening of [[Ernst Lubitsch]]’s silent film, ''[[Lady Windermere's Fan (1925 film)|Lady Windermere's Fan]]''.

The archive's first curator was [[ Vlada Petrić | Vlada K. Petric]], who expanded the collection and established the year-round regular screenings. He retired in 1995 and in 1999 Bruce Jenkins assumed the post.

In January 2005, [[Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] dean [[William C. Kirby]] announced that the archive would be absorbed by the Harvard College Library and managed by the Library of Fine Arts. This caused some concern within the Harvard community about the future of the archive and its programming. Jenkins resigned soon after the announcement.<ref name="Harvard Magazine">{{cite news|url=http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/110520.html|title=The Harvard Film Archive|date=November–December 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061114062750/http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/110520.html|archive-date=2006-11-14|url-status=dead|publisher=Harvard Magazine|pages=37-38}}</ref>

In September 2006 film scholar [[Haden Guest]] became the new director of the archive. He addressed worries that the archives' absorption in the Library would affect its public film screenings.<ref name="Haden Guest">{{cite news
|url=http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2006/11/12/new_director_guest_plans_larger_role_for_harvard_film_archive/?page=1
|publisher=The Boston Globe
|title=New director Guest plans larger role for Harvard Film Archive
|date=November 12, 2006
| first=Leslie
| last=Brokaw
}}</ref>

==Collection==
The collection spans the history of film-making from the [[silent film]] era to today, and includes [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood films]], [[Documentary film|documentaries]], [[animation]], [[Short subject|short films]], [[B-movie]]s and [[World cinema|feature films from all over the world]]. It is the largest collection of 35mm film in New England.
The collection grows by an average of 15 to 20 films a year and contains some rarities, such as some of the only prints in the United States of several films by [[Serbs|Serbian]] director [[Dusan Makavejev]].
It also features a large collection of [[German cinema]] and the Bavarian Film Fund donates prints of any films that it finances.<ref name="Harvard Magazine: Film Archive Goes Silver">{{cite news|url=http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/010459.html|title=Film Archive Goes Silver|date=January–February 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061114051650/http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/010459.html|archive-date=2006-11-14|url-status=dead|publisher=Harvard Magazine|pages=57-58}}</ref> After the death of [[Karen Aqua]], the archive was given more than 300 of her works, both completed and unfinished.<ref>{{cite news |last=Meek |first=Tom |date=2016-04-16 |title=Local Animator Karen Aqua Remembered In Retrospective At Harvard Film Archive |url=https://www.wbur.org/artery/2016/04/06/local-animator-karen-aqua-remembered-in-retrospective-at-harvard-film-archive |work=WBUR |access-date=2020-10-30}}</ref>

==Film conservation==
The Archive's mission includes to conserve, restore, and exhibit the collection's prints. It prioritizes film-to-film preservation for archival stability, authenticity, and aesthetics.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://archive.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2007/12/19/preserving_history_frame_by_frame/?page=2|title=Preserving history, frame by frame|last=Austerlitz|first=Saul|date=2007-12-19|work=Boston.com|access-date=2019-05-10}}</ref> It may also perform film-to-digital transfers.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://library.harvard.edu/film/index.html The Harvard Film Archive's website]

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