Preservation of films
The NFAI has 19 film preservation facilities /vaults as per international standards and specifications. The 19 vaults together can store close to two lakhs film reels.
Initially, the film collection was stored on the premises of the Film and Television Institute of India, but was later moved to the NFAI’s new building, which is also Pune, in 1994.
Research and documentation
This section of the NFAI is in charge of tracing, collecting and preserving the heritage of Indian cinema. It contains nearly 1,50,000 still photographs relating to almost every period of Indian cinema. It also contains over 24,000 film posters in various sizes, 14,000 song booklets, 1,00,000 press clippings and old disc records.
The Library
The NFAI library has over 29,000 books on cinema from around the world. It has close to 100 periodicals on cinema published in various languages and nearly 31,000 film scripts received from the Central Board of Film Certification, India.
Most of the old books, periodicals and scripts are digitized. The library is open to the public for research purposes.
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