Since its creation in 1990, The Film Foundation is an association intended to become aware of the extreme need for protecting and for preserving works of the history of the cinema.

The foundation was created at the origin by the realizer Martin Scorsese and seven of his/her close friends: Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg. They were joined thereafter by the scenario writers Robert Altman and Clint Eastwood.

To date, the foundation helped with the safeguarding and/or the restoration of more than 200 films, in particular certain great classics like:

• Eve ( All butt Eve - 1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
• That it was green my valley ( How green was my valley - 1941, John Ford)
• New York - Miami ( It happened one night - 1932, Frank Capra)
• the Last of Mohicans ( The last one off the Mohicans - 1920, Clarence Brown and Maurice Tourneur)
• Harms of the hunter ( The night off the hunter - 1955, Charles Laughton)
• On the quays ( One the toilets face - 1954, Elia Kazan)
• the Shade of a doubt ( Shadow off has doubt - 1943, Alfred Hitchcock),
• Shadows (1960, John Cassavetes)

… and well of others. Moreover, the foundation helped with the safeguarding of documents of files and documentary.

See too

• Official site