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FILM

All aboard for the Thai Film Archive

By The Nation

Raised to public organisation status in 2009, the Thai Film Archive is flexing its budgetary muscles and has launched many ambitious programmes at its complex in Salaya, Nakhon Pathom.

Among the new attractions is a historic steam locomotive, which will be the centrepiece of a "movie town". A luxury passenger carriage will be placed behind the former State Railway engine, and films about trains will be shown on the "movie train".

Archive director Dome Sukvong says railroads played a key role in the development of Thailand's film industry. It was in 1922 that the Royal State Railway of Siam formed the Topical Film Service, one of the first filmmaking companies in the Kingdom. It made newsreels and documentaries as well as commercial feature films.

New equipment costing approximately 120 million baht is expected to arrive this year for the archive's filmpreservation lab. Until 1984, Thailand had no film archive, and consequently, nearly a century's worth of the nation's cinematic heritage has been lost.

Other activities at the Thai Film Archive include movies at the Sri Salaya Theatre. In the mornings, family movies are shown to schoolchildren, and there are daily screenings of Thai and foreign films. This week, there will be a special programme on the films of Ratt Pestonji, a pioneering Thai director of the 1950s and '60s.

The Thai Film Museum, packed full of artefacts from Thai cinema history, is open for tours on the weekends and public holidays. New additions to the museum are props from Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives", which won the top prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival.

For more details, visit the website, www.Fapot.org, or search for "Thai Film Archive" on Facebook.

-- The Nation 2011-08-08

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