LA CAMERA STYLO, founded by German filmmaker Michael Kuball, specialises in collecting home movies, amateur films and found footage: Uncensored films of the 20th Century, preserving the collective memory of European people. Every second has been lived, each frame is real.
The collection includes an Archive of the Golden Twenties focussing on Berlin. Our Russian film collection is based on the Thirties and WWII.
400 hours of amateur films are covering the everyday life in the Thirties and the Fourties; World War II: German soldiers films, shot in France, Russia, Poland, Greece, Italy, Africa and in Nazi Germany. With small, inconspicuous cameras ordinary people filmed - also in color - reality scenes never been shown in the official newsreels, controlled by the ministry of propaganda.
During the post war years amateur filmmakers recorded the daily life in East and West Germany (1945-1990). When television was still black & white, travellers filmed in the 50s and 60s already on 16 mm Kodachrome: France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Yugoslavia and in the Baltic countries....
Another 8mm filmmaker visited The Beatles on their shooting locations. Just like the Hamburg club owner and Beatles discoverer, whose films were added to our collection.
We are a small, client-oriented archive serving major TV companies and film producers worldwide. Knowing the needs of documentary filmmakers, we like to counsel on new projects and are proud of our fast and uncomplicated service. Most screeners can be delivered within 48 hours. Most films were transferred and archived as digital masters. On their sound tracks we record, whenever possible, the narrated memories of those enthusiasts, who gave us their films. Any requests are more than welcome by mail, phone or fax.
