Operating since 2008, Europeana, the digital library of Europe, was established with the goal of making universally available on a single web platform digitized material of European cultural heritage preserved in several thousand cultural institutions (libraries, museums, archives) all over the continent. Since 2011, the European Film Gateway has also been an integral part of the Europeana portal. Uploaded content can be searched by name, film title, word and year and viewed directly on the EFG page, but by clicking on a link it is also possible to navigate to the website of the content-provider institution.

The Film Archive contributed to the joint database with detailed descriptions of film newsreels shot between 1924-1944, including content, filmographic and technical descriptions, in Hungarian and English (351 newsreels).įounded in September 2008, the European Film Gateway (EFG) portal uses a common search engine to provide online access to 550,000 movies, film photos, posters and documents from the film archives and cinémathèque collections of 16 European film archives.

The goal of the project was to establish an international film database (in which users could look into the collections of European film archives, primarily non-fiction film material, documentary and educational films, newsreels, travel films, advertisements, experimental, sport and animation films. The Hungarian National Film Archive joined the initiative in the first year 18 European institutions and archives participated in it under the leadership of the German Film Institute (Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF). The MIDAS project (Moving Image Database for Access and Re-use of European Film Collections) was launched in 2006 as part of the European Commission’s Media Plus programme.

Midas gateway portal