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Cinémémoire is a library of homemade movies and amateur films. It collects, scanns, documents and archives those films since 1995. Right now, the fund contains more than 900 hours of footage from the 20’s to nowadays, and it is daily enriched by new film deposits. Currently, 400 hours of film are digitized and available to all in the form of records and online videos.

The film archive Cinememoire focuses on the audiovisual memory of Marseilles, the PACA region and former French colonies.

Other than those three major collections, Cinémémoire has images from around the world picturing the daily, family and local life as well as historical or political events, sport events, scientific exploration, travels, or even customs ...

Collections :

« The Marseilles Film Archive » includes images of Marseille from our film library. They show the history of Marseilles: the deck ferry, the liberation of Marseille, all the major works led by Gaston Deferre.

« The colonial Film Archive » includes images taken by settlers filming their daily life. It testifies of the French colonial history in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Congo, CAR, Cameroon, Benin, Madagascar, Indochina ...

« The PACA film Archive » brings together different images of the Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur region from 1925 to the present. The town of Port de Bouc deposited an important film fund.

« The Petot fund » is a collection made by a collector of amateur films featuring rare footage of the region PACA and Marseilles from 1925 to 1959.

« The Laffage fund » includes 16mm films shot by the amateur filmmaker Yvon Lorenzini who filmed villages in the PACA region and the city of Marseilles in the 50’s and 60’s.

« The Coumes fund » is named after the amateur filmmaker who has produced 17 wildlife documentaries in 16mm in the 50s and 60s, most of the being shot in Provence.

Callelongue 1935, friends gather to spend the day at the cottage. Program: meal, wine and jeux de boule.

Visit of Jacques Soustelle in Constantine, 26 may1958

Parade pro-French Algeria during a visit of Jacques Soustelle in Constantine on 26 may1958

Référendum about Indépendance in Algéria, 1962

Parade through the streets of Algiers by civilians and soldiers on the day of the referendum for independence.

Independance of Algeria, 1962

Algiers, 1962. A parade to celebrate tindependence, filmed from a balcony, by a French that has remained remained in Algeria. The vehicles and the crowd march with Algerian flags.