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Transit Film GmbH is a German film licensing company located in Munich. The company licenses film documents held by the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), as well as its own filmstock.
History
editTransit Film was founded on January 18, 1966 as a federally owned GmbH.[citation needed] For decades, Transit Film has been licensing film documents held by the German Federal Archives.[citation needed] Transit Film also acted as a trustee for the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation/Wiesbaden until the end of 2014.[citation needed]
German Federal Archives Film Collections
editTransit Film is exclusively appointed to manage the worldwide commercial exploitation of films belonging to the German Federal Archives.[citation needed] For decades, Transit Film has been dealing with material from the beginnings of film making up to the end of World War II in 1945.[citation needed] This film stock consists of silent and sound newsreels and documentary films.[citation needed]
Since 1.1.2014 Transit Film has also been appointed to make accessible and to exploit commercially German Federal Archives newsreels and documentaries from 1945 onwards.[citation needed] An internet platform with digitised films has been established in cooperation with the German Federal Archives.[citation needed] The internet platform allows the user to view, research and order historical footage and serves Film, TV and Press professionals and the public.[1]
Films owned by Transit Film
editTransit Film also exploits its own film catalogue consisting of German feature films. Amongst those are classics such as Cat and Mouse (1967), The Bread of Those Early Years (1962) and Genosse Münchhausen (1962).[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ "Films at the German Federal Archive". Das Bundesarchiv. n.d. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
External links
edit- Company Website
- internet platform with digitized films - post WWII
- showreel- German History after 1945
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