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FILM ARCHIVES
In view of the efforts now being made by the British Film Institute to establish a library of films of historical, cultural or educational value, it is interesting to learn what is being done in a similar direction by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. It has received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for the purpose of establishing a Department of Motion Pictures to be known as the Museum of Modern Art Film Library Corporation, with the following officers: John Hay Whitney, President; John E. Abbott, VicePresident and General Manager; and Edward M. M. Warburg, Treasurer. Iris Barry, formerly Librarian of the Museum, will be Curator of the Film Library. Because of lack of space in the building now occupied by the Museum, the Film Library will be located at 485 Madison Avenue.
The Film Library will undertake a number of activities, chief of which will be to assemble, catalogue and preserve as complete a record as possible, in the actual films, of all types of motion pictures made in America or elsewhere from 1889 to the present day; to exhibit and circulate these films, singly or in programme groups, to museums and colleges in the same manner in which other departments of the Museum now assemble, catalogue, exhibit and circulate paintings, sculpture, models and photographs of architecture, and reproductions of works of art. In addition, the Film Library will assemble a collection of books and periodicals on the film and gather other historical and critical material, including the vast amount of unrecorded data in the minds of the men who were either active participants or close observers of the development of the motion picture from its beginning. The Film Library also hopes to assemble a collection of film stills and a collection of old music scores originally issued to accompany the silent films. All the activities of the Film Library will be strictly non-commercial. There will be no charge for many of its services and the fee for its circulating exhibitions of films will be less than the cost of assembling and distributing the programmes to the colleges and museums. It will in no way compete with the film industry.
In announcing the newly organized Film Library, A. Conger Goodyear, President of the Museum, said: "The expansion of the Museum to include a department of motion pictures has long been contemplated. As our Charter states, the Museum is 'established and maintained for the purpose of encouraging and developing a
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