About
Film Atlas is an encyclopedic online resource pairing high resolution imagery with scholarly essays to document the history of film as a physical medium from the dawn of cinema to the present. Facilitated by collaboration between international archives, this dynamic reference, research and teaching tool offers a comprehensive visual guide to every motion picture film format, soundtrack and color process ever invented.
The website is a collaboration between the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and the George Eastman Museum, with generous funding provided by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, the George Eastman Museum Publishing Trust Endowment, and FIAF (Eileen Bowser Memorial Fund).
A beta version of the website was launched in May 2024 to the FIAF community, with a full public launch following in May 2025.
More than 600 formats and processes will eventually be documented on the site with over 200 different authors contributing to the text. This digital publication is regularly updated as new texts are delivered.
Credits
Editor James Layton
Project Coordinator Crystal Kui
Production Associate Margaux Chalançon
Asia Coordinator Kae Ishihara
L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation Research Assistant Oleksandr Teliuk
Web Developer Jean-Pascal Cauchon (The Green ID)
Copy Editor Tom Cabot (Ketchup Productions)
Translators Margaux Chalançon, Kae Ishihara, Oleksandr Teliuk
FIAF Christophe Dupin, Elsa Degerman
George Eastman Museum Peter Bagrov, Bruce Barnes, Tyler Wallace, Caroline Yeager
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