Jump to content

Transit Film

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Transit Film Logo

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

[edit]

Transit 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

[edit]

Transit 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

[edit]

Transit Film also exploits its own film catalogue consisting of German feature films. Amongst those are classics such as Cat and Mouse [de] (1967), The Bread of Those Early Years (1962) and Genosse Münchhausen [de] (1962).[citation needed]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Films at the German Federal Archive". Das Bundesarchiv. n.d. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
[edit]