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The Academy keeps its own film archive

Its collection holds thousands of titles for preservation and study The Academy Film Archive, established in the 1990s, collects and preserves motion pictures, including early nitrate, documentaries and experimental work, and holds a large collection of interviews and production records. It funds restoration and runs a preservation screening programme. Its holdings support historians as well as the Academy's own work. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Its collection holds thousands of titles for preservation and study. The figure is taken from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.