Collection

Fpa classics

(Lobster Films Collection)

Our team of archivists, with many years of experience within Lobster Films, puts its expertise and knowledge of image funds at your disposal for the personalised management of your requests.

Our know-how: Research and thematic selection (including within our sources currently being indexed or not yet digitised), organization of tailor-made viewing, legal, historical and technical advice, and negotiation of rights. We can arrange to meet you in our offices in Paris or deliver files to you via the route of your choice.

We digitise our films on our scanner in 2K and 4K, as necessary, at your request.


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A MULTI-GENRE COLLECTION

NEWS

From the first reconstructed newsreels dating back to the beginning of cinema, to the Universal Newsreel, industrial and educational films - innumerable subjects covering the major events of the 20th century.

DOCUMENTARIES

The Belle Epoque, the two World Wars, the Roaring Twenties, trips to New York, Paris, Marseille, London, Berlin, Rome, the Warsaw Ghetto, Africa, Russia, Japan…

EXCEPTIONAL AMATEUR FILMS

By the medium or by the subject: the whole world filmed in 16mm: cruises in Kodachrome, the Barnum circus seen behind the scenes; Algeria and Indochina filmed by a French officer; a Jewish family in Ménilmontant under occupation...

FEATURE FILMS

All film genres with big stars in the credits: Douglas Fairbanks, James Stewart, Lon Chaney, Errol Flynn, Eric Von Stroheim... The major films of the Russian avant-garde in restored version; French comedies performed by young actors like Jean Gabin, Juliette Greco, Michèle Morgan, Romy Schneider, Arletty, Michel Simon, Danielle Darrieux, Fernandel or Bourvil, etc…,  filmed by the most prestigious directors: Abel Gance, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Fritz Lang, Marcel L’Herbier, Julien Duvivier, F.W. Murnau or J.W. Pabst, etc.

RKO COLLECTION

We offer world exclusive extracts from 720 films from a major Hollywood studio at affordable prices, including Citizen Kane, King Kong, The Heroic Charge, Suspicion... A few random names: John Wayne, John Ford, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Katharine Hepburn, Maurice Tourneur, Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Henri Fonda, Howard Hawks, Stanley Kubrick.

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