The Cinemateca Digital Portuguesa is a collection maintained by the Arquivo Nacional das Imagens in Movement (ANIM), which is based in Bucelas, a small town about 30 kms north of Lisbon.
The Cinemateca Digital was set up through the European Gateway Project and only began in 2011. It was initially restricted to non-fiction films produced in Portugal between the years 1896 and 1931. But it is continually being added to and, according to its website, currently offers on-line access to over 500 films. The current holding of films can be accessed here.
However, only a very small proportion of these are films that were shot in the Portuguese colonies and an even smaller proportion are concerned centrally with local indigenous customary life.
Text : De Rosa 2018
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