It was created by law on 25 October 1946 as the Centre national de la cinématographie (National Centre for
Cinematography), it is currently directed by Frédérique Bredin. The CNC replaced the Office professionnel du cinéma (OPC), its predecessor established during the reign of
Vichy France for wartime censorship.
The CNC archives are located in the former
Fort de Bois-d'Arcy southwest of Paris. Initially established in 1969 to house combustible nitrate films, the archives now house modern acetate films as well.[1]
Functions
The principal functions of the CNC are:
Regulation of cinema
Support of the economy of the cinema, audiovisual, and multimedia arts
Promotion of cinema and audiovisual arts among the public
The site of AFF-CNC puts online a part their movie database conserved in
Bois-d'Arcy. It gives as well the necessary information to consult these movies, either at Bois-d'Arcy or in their chanal in
BnF, and offers online accreditation formulas. In other parts, the website offers courses of themes to make it possible to discover the activities and the missions of theses archives.