Film Archival Evalution

This study aimed to explore the functioning of all types of archives (national archives, governmental and non-governmental organizational archives, television archives, and thematic archives) regarding the evaluation of resources that come under the umbrella term “film” (motion pictures). Movies are used, cited, and, categorized into at least two formats. This study was done using translating and commenting the third and fourth chapters of the Kula’s book entitled The archival appraisal of photographs: A RAMP study with guidelines. It was followed by summarizing and concluding based on the researcher’s experiences regarding archival documents and exploring the behavior of archival institutions of Iran. The findings of Kula and results of examining cases in Iran show that the mission, goals, tasks, and type of archives (national, organizational, and thematic) directly impact on making provision policies as well as identifying, and determining, and applying the components and criteria of evaluating audio-visual documents (for long-term storage or erasing).