Eye Filmmuseum: Jean Desmet

Jean Desmet was one of the largest film entrepreneurs in the Netherlands and he documented and saved almost everything that had to do with his company: not only accounting and films, but also posters, advertising printed matter and cat's bubbles.; In this way an extraordinary archive was created. This received worldwide recognition in 2011 when UNESCO included it in its Memory of the World Register. With its collection, Eye manages more than 40,000 films from all genres: a fine sample of film history, from classics and blockbusters to cult films.
The Eye collection took shape in 1946 when the first predecessor of Eye was established: the Dutch Historical Film Archive. In 1952 the Nederlands Filmmuseum was born from the Dutch Historical Archive; since 2010 we are Eye.