EFG1914 Project (Deutschland) (Web)

EFG1914 is a digitisation project focusing on films and non-film material from and related to World War I. 26 partners, among them 21 European film archives, are working towards the following main goals:

• To digitise 661 hours of film and ca. 5.600 film-related documents on the theme of the WWI
• To give access to the material through the European Film Gateway and Europeana
• To build a virtual exhibition using selected objects digitised in EFG1914

The project covers all the different genres and sub-genres relevant in that time: newsreels, documentaries, fiction films, propaganda films. Moreover, it will also give access to anti-war films that were mainly produced after 1918 and which reflect the tragedies of the 1910s. This material is of special importance since only around 20% of the complete silent film production survived in the film heritage institutions. Therefore, EFG1914 set out to digitize a crucial part and a critical mass of these remaining moving image records, mostly undiscovered by the public.

EFG1914 is the follow-up project of EFG – The European Film Gateway (2008-2011). The main outcome of the EFG project is the online portal The European Film Gateway, which gives access to several hundreds of thousands photos, films, texts and other material preserved in European film archives. More information on the initial EFG project can be found here.

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