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April 2026 NEW FILMSTRIPS! 7 Mini-Cine filmstrips with exceptional placement of images have arrived. 5 Meccano Tri-Ang Kinderkino filmstrips have arrived.
February 2026 NEW FILMSTRIPS! 8 newly produced filmstrips from the Hungarian publisher Diafilm have arrived.
January 2026 NEW FILMSTRIPS! 5 Boxes with about 250 filmstrips from a Catholic parish in Germany have arrived.
December 2025 NEW FILMSTRIPS! 4 Boxes EB-Shortstrips containing 12 individual text-filmstrip units have arrived
28.11. 2025 Workshop in Frankfurt Resumée "Filmstrip Preservation Matters"
20.-21.11 2025 Conference in Stockholm Film strips, slides and beyond – Entangled histories of projected images in Europe 1945–1995 Keynote The naked Image?!
October 2025 NEW FILMSTRIPS! 65 filmstrips from Great Britain from the 1950s and 60s, have arrived
September 2025 NEW FILMSTRIPS! 68 from France, Edition Larousse about 1938, complete with lectures have arrived.
August 2025 NEW FILMSTRIPS! 15 filmstrips from Belgium (1920s) und 7 filmstrips from Italy (Pathé) have arrived.
July 2025 NEW FILMSTRIPS! More than 130 filmstrips from the USA (1970s and 1980s) have arrived, history, politics, social life and children's books. Sadly the original tapes and booklets missing.
May 2025 NEW FILMSTRIPS! 59 filmstrips from France, French history and Catholic Catechism from the 1930s to 50s, and 5 "Buck Ryan" 16mm with their Peep-Scope from Great Britain, have arrived.
January 2025 NEW FILMSTRIPS! 51 new filmstrips, among them 16 Tru-Vue and 35 Stillfilm have arrived from a generous donation from Brooklyn, USA
May 2024 NEW FILMSTRIPS! 50 new filmstrips by the US-American S.V.E. from the 1920s to 50s have arrived
24. May 2024 CONGRESS "Next, Click: Finding a future for Filmstrips" an der University of St. Andrews, Schottland. >>> Program <<<
December 2023: NEW FILMSTRIPS! Over 100 filmstrips and their lectures by the Catholic CALIG from the 1930s to 50s have arrived
8. December 2023 LECTURE by Dr. Anke Napp "Mit Liesegang um die Welt" at the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf, about the travelogues by Liesegang (1920s).
22. September 2023 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP "Romanian Diafilms. Research Perspectives" >>> Programm <<<
August 2023: NEW SECTION with filmstrips from Romania.
June 2023: NEW FILMSTRIPS with agricultural topics have arrived.
13. May 2023LECTURE by Dr. Anke Napp "Ruinen als Fokalpunkt von Zerstörung und Wiedergeburt. Bildbänder über den Kölner Dom und die Berliner Altstadt aus dem Jörn Napp - Bildbandarchiv" (Conference "Die zerstörte Stadt zwischen Zäsur und Kontinuität") about filmstrips showing WWII destruction and their instrumentalisation.
May 2023: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 13 stereos by Tru-Vu with their viewer have arrived
February 2023: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 10 new filmstrips from the publisher BELI have arrived
December 2022: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 12 filmstrips by ASCOP "Das Beste" (1950s), and Pathéorama plus filmstrips (1920s) have arrived.
February 2022:NEW FILMSTRIPS! 5 filmstrips from a private donation in Germany, 64 filmstrips by the German publisher DLD and Richard Rösch (1940s) and more 19 filmstrips (1920s) have arrived.
November 2021: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 6 Dutch filmstrips with Disney comics and a Bajka Diaskop have arrived
Juli 2021:NEW FILMSTRIPS! 17 filmstrips (1930s and 1940s) have arrived
January 2021:NEW FILMSTRIPS! 158 filmstrips (1920 to 1940s) and their lectures used by Pastor August Birk in Oberiflingen have arrived.
December 2020:NEW FILMSTRIPS! 24 filmstrips from the GDR, among them images from known holiday spots at the Ostsee, have arrived.
July 2020:NEW FILMSTRIPS! 12 Pathéorama with their viewer (1920s) have arrived
May 2020:NEW FILMSTRIPS! 17 filmstrips from Great Britain (1920s) have arrived. Our archive has been renamed to "Jörn Napp - Bildbandarchiv" in honor to its founder, deceased in May 2020.
April 2020:NEW FILMSTRIPS! 2 filmstrips from the USA, among them one with cassette tape and lectures have arrived. The other compares the Soviet to the American school-system
January 2020: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 65 filmstrips from the Protestant Vicariat in Gornsdorf (1920s to 1940s) have arrived
October 2019: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 25 from the GDR and France (Pathéorama) and "Paris Match" 1955-1957 have arrived
August 2019: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 5 filmstrips from the GDR, among them color-reversal
July 2019: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 25 filmstrips from a French primary school have arrived
July 2019: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 23 filmstrips with children's entertainment, donated by family Vollmar, Dresden, have arrived.
4. April 2019-23. Juni 2019: EXHIBITION "Licht ins Dunkel! Die Diasammlung des Kunstgeschichtlichen Seminars im Kontext der Zeit" More
11. February 2019: LECTURE by Dr. Anke Napp "Ein leuchtender Fleck im Dunkel. - Diaprojektion im Schulwesen"
October 2018: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 60 filmstrip and a "Filmdienst"-projector have arrived
September 2018: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 19 new filmstrips from the GDR
August 2018: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 29 filmstrips by the publisher StillFilm (USA) have arrived, they are 55mm and partially handcolored.
July 2018: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 44 Bildbänder von der Bildstelle des Evangelischen Jungmännerwerkes (DDR) aus den 1950er bis 1970er Jahren zu Themen der Gemeindearbeit und Religionsgeschichte, sowie ein Bildband von E.W. Dia (DDR) über Magdeburg sind im Archiv eingetroffen!
2. June 2018: LECTURE by Dr. Anke Napp "Die Größe des Schicksals, das wir Krieg nennen". Kriegerische Gewalt in einem Filmosto-Bildband um 1928 auf der Konferenz "Hin- und Wegsehen" in Hamburg, published in: Hin- und Wegsehen. Formen und Kräfte von Gewaltbildern, Hg. Franca Buss und Philipp Müller (Imaginarien der Kraft), Berlin/Boston 2019, 161-180.
January 2018: NEW FILMSTRIPS!
January 2018: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 2 color-reversal filmstrips by DEFA Kopierwerke have arrived
September 2017: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 60 filmstrips from a Protestant Vicariate in the region of Bremen (1920s to 1940s) have arrived.
10. July 2017: LECTURE by Dr. Anke Napp "Massenmensch und Maschinenmensch: Die Angst vor der Sowjetkultur in deutschen Bildbändern von 1931 - 1934" auf der Konferenz "Die Russische Revolution und ihre Wahrnehmung in Bayern, Deutschland und der Welt" (Programm) der 'Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung', Würzburg. About the portrayel of the Russian Revolution in German filmstrips
22. March 2017: LECTURE by Dr. Anke Napp "Unter Luthers Führung zum Heldentod an die Front" - Völkisches Christentum in Bildbandvorträgen von 1921-1944. Conference "Die Bedeutung der Reformation - für das Militär. Die Bedeutung des Militärs - für die Reformation vom 21. bis 23. März 2017 am Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, Potsdam. About the instrumentalisation of Martin Luther and Protestant Christianity in a nationalist context.
January 2017: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 11 filmstrips from Ukraine (Soviet era) have arrived
October 2016: NEW FILMSTRIPS! 6 filmstrips with Catholic teachings were bought in Antwerp
May 2016: We got a link on the webpage 'A-Million-Pictures', project by the University of Utrecht.