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who came were driven by their interest
in national film history. In fact, many
of them are movie collectors from all
around the world. For example, there
were Korean researchers coming to look
for a film made during Dutch colonial
era, produced by a South Korean with
Japanese nationality and treasured as
highly-valuable.

Besides housing the main office and film
studio, the fourth-story of this museum
also serves as the living room for
visitors, while the fifth story serves as a
library for movie poster collections and
valuable books of films and film study.
Public are allowed to borrow those book
collections, by copying the page of the
selected books.

Having just enough time to browse the
fourth and fifth story, we continued the generation. According to Akhlis, most of younger
tour to the basement level. The story filmmakers chose to not keep their films copy
houses 2,750 film collections produced in Sinematek. However, despite the lack of
in various era, including the modern collections from the millennials, Sinematek
ones, made by technology of celluloid, Indonesia is still a must-visit destination for
analog tape, magnetic tape and digital travelers who wish to enjoy and feel the spirit of
format films—all of them are stored the past, where the national film industry was
and kept nicely in a 16°C room. They in glory.
are nicely preserved by two staffs who sam
possess special skill.

The room also stores a phonograph
record of one of the oldest Indonesian
movies, which was produced in 1934
during the colonial era. The film is titled
Tie Pat Kai Kawin or Siloeman Babi
Perang Siloeman Monjet, produced by
a Batavia-born producer of Chinese
descent, The Teng Cun. It is Teng’s eighth
film, which production began in 1931.

Although it keeps plenty of film
collections, Sinematek Indonesia
has fewer collections from millennial

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