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I. Nemanič: Sprejem in znanstveno-informacijska sredstva filmskega gradiva v arhivah, Arhivist XXVII, 1, 1977, od str. 253-259. D. Filipović: Neka iskustva iz rada na sređivanju i obradi pisane, kino i fono-dokumentacije u Arhivu Predsednika Republike, Arhivist, 2, 1977. SUMMARY THE FIRST STEPS OF CINETHECA OF SR OF CROATIA AT THE CROATIAN ARCHIVE Soon after the first cinema performances in Paris in 1895. the view came up that the film tape could be treated as archivic material. This view was first taken by the Polish Boleslav Matusevski in 1898. In our country, however, the awareness of the need for appreciation and preservation of the film material comes up only after 1945. Thus, the Yugoslav Cinetheca in Belgrade was established in 1949. This paper deals especially with the situation in the SR of Croatia, which has a long tradition in various filming activities. Thus, first films in this Republic were made in 1903. (Noworyta), the first cinema performance was held in Zagreb on 8th October 1896 and the first standing cinema houses were opened in Zagreb and Pula in 1906. This was very early, considering that the first standing cinema houses were opened in Zagreb and Pula in 1906. This was very early, considering that the first standing cinema houses in USA appeared in 1905. After several attempts, the special conditions for the foundation of the Cinetheca were created only in 1976. with the Law of Cinematography and all was realised in 1979. at the Croatian Archive. Discussing this specific situation, it accounts of the efforts necessary in creating organisational, technical conditions for providing the catalogue of the own film materials from the beginnings of the film until today, since a complete reasearch of this kind has not been done so far. There is a conceptional problem, too: what to preserve in the film archive regarding the specific features of this activity in SR of Croatia. The role pf the Croatian cinetheca has been discussed in connection with the existing institutions and with the fact that there is no institute for film that would enable systematic research, which forces the Cinetheca of Croatia to open the possibilities of the scientific research within its own scope. The problem of the standards of film presentation, of the spectator's culture level, and the need for the Croatian Cinetheca to help various actions in the field of propagating film culture and education of new cadres. The Cinetheca of Croatia, the view has been brought up, will have to take care of the film documentation, to be equipped professionally and with sufficient statt for the need of the SR of Croatia, which would be of an unestimable value for the lasting registration of the individual cultural and public servants, cultural monuments and various other aspects of the contemporary life. 395