"The Children´s Republic", 1947 "Bread and Wine", 1947 "Italy Rebuilds", 1947). Further films were commissioned by the United Nations and other international institutions (e.g. "Working together", 1961 "Jour de peine", 1952) and were supposed to promote the concept of democracy in post-war Europe. Mostly, these films were commissioned as part of the Marshall Plan (e.g. However, Vicas' achievements as director, producer, camera operator, editor and actor from 1938 until his death in 1985 are a remarkable testimonial of the development of film in the Cold War era.īetween 19 Vicas was involved in the production of more than 40 short documentaries and features, working in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Israel, the US and Canada, among other countries. The work of director Victor Vicas (1918-1985) has so far been widely neglected. It ran from January 2006 until January 2009 and was carried out by 18 institutions and archives under the lead of the Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF.
MIDAS had been initiated as a pilot project in the MEDIA Plus programme of the European Commission. filmarchives online is the result of the MIDAS project (Moving Image Database for Access and Re-use of European Film Collections). documentary and educational films, newsreels, travelogue, advertising, scientific, industrial, experimental, sports films, as well as animation films. The focus of the database is on non-fiction material i.e. Search results provide information about existence and location of the materials as well as contact details to facilitate the access. Via the multi-lingual web portal film works can be searched for by content, filmographic data and physical characteristics. Filmarchives online provides easy and free access to catalogue information of film archives from all over Europe.