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Lavies, as the creator of the collection, remained as the head of the new operation, which however he continued to run as his own private endeavour; this brought him into repeated conflict with his funders in the film world. He stayed however until 1 January 1959, by which time most of the underlying
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However, the constant disagreements about the
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As proper storage of the vulnerable archive material and film stock was not possible in the
Institute's premises, part of the collection had to be stored offsite in the
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became a department within the expanded DIF and was renamed the
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215:Film archives in Germany
230:Mass media in Wiesbaden
132:Das Deutsche Filmarchiv
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148:List of film archives
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21:Deutsches Filmarchiv
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