ABSTRACT
The proposal from Matuszewski’s 1898 pamphlet that there should be a repository created to hold cinematograph film to allow future generations to see and understand history was remarkable in its perceptiveness. Whilst not unique in its recognition of the archival potential of this new medium, and film had been a developing technology for several years, Matuszewski’s pamphlet was published less than three years after the first public projection of moving images by the Lumière brothers, for whom he worked as a cameraman.
