Research department. Personal file

In the mid-1940s, when the film depository was rapidly filling with film copies collected from studios and with new releases, a considerable amount of captured films from Germany arrived as well. People who knew film history and spoke foreign languages were needed to make sense of this mass of film material. So the first generation of research staff appeared; the depository turned into a film archive, and what had been chaos became a collection.

In this section we want to tell about these people and those who continued their work.