Costumes, photographs and tapes of the luminaries of Argentine cinema such as Eva Duarte (Avoid), Zully Moreno, Mirtha Legrand either Leonard Favio are exhibited in the Film Museum. To this is added the preservation of films, cameras, projectors and other devices of the cinematographic technique. In addition to elements of the set, such as scenery, props, scripts, shooting plans, press releases, advertisements and reviews.
Located in Caffarena 51Next to the Art Factory in La Boca, a neighborhood that has been revitalized with the development of dozens of cultural spaces, including the Benito Quinquela Martin Museum, the Wax Museum and the Historical Museum of La Boca, among many others, the Cinema Museum Pablo Ducros, contains a library and newspaper library open to the public.
The museum’s film archive keeps more than 90 thousand rolls of film on different supports, and several collections of recording cameras and projectors of historical value. It also has a movie theater for 70 people, equipped for three different types of projections, thus being one of the few rooms suitable for showing filmic materials and full HD from the country.
Visiting is from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Weekends from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., including holidays. The entrance costs 100 pesosbut students and retirees enter free of charge.
Among other objects, the camera of the Lumiere Brotherscreators of cinema, and the camera Pathé, with which the pioneer mario rooster will shoot the first professional production of Argentine cinema, “The May Revolution“.
The scenery designed by Voytec for “I, the worst of all”added to costumes from various films by Mary Louise Bernberg; and awards like berlin bear won by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, and the Condor Award to the national cinema Argentine Film Academyamong others.
The Film Museum was created in 1971, from the film collection donated by the widow of the researcher and collector Pablo C. Ducros Hickenfrom whom it takes its name.
Its objective is to exhibit and preserve the objects that are part of its heritage and to increase the collection dedicated to Argentine cinematography. More than three thousand original posters of Argentine films, 360 stage sketches and 400 costume pieces used in Argentine movies, along with thousands of movie photos of movie celebrities.
The changing rooms used by Susana Gimenez in the movie”The Mary” of Daniel Tinaire, and of Mirtha Legrand for the feature film “Orchids on Tuesdays“, directed byr Francisco Mugica. Also, stills from the movies in which Eva Duarte participated before marrying Juan Domingo Peron and become Evita.
In 2008, the only -practically- complete copy of one of the jewels of the silent period, the German film Metropolis. With an additional 26 minutes, which were considered lost, and which have made it possible to launch a remastered edition of the work of Fritz Lang.
They complete the collection of the museum 12,000 cans of the movie newsreel “Argentine Events“, covering 40 years of editions starting in 1938, and a similar number of cans from the film archive of news of channel 9.
From its foundation until 1976, the first director of the Museum was the critic and researcher Jorge Miguel Couselowho was succeeded by the critic Rolando Fustiñana (Roland), founder of the Argentine Cinematheque.
Later, other directors were the critic and filmmaker William Fernandez Juradothe critic and researcher Jose Maria Poirier Lalanne and the documentary filmmaker David Bluestein. Since 2008, its director is the researcher and specialist in audiovisual preservation Paula Felix-Didier.
It is considered one of the most important film archives in the country and the region, carrying out projects aimed at enriching and disseminating Argentine film culture; carries out exchange programs with archives and museums in different countries. It offers courses and workshops, and provides support for research and teaching.
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