【英语时差8，16】德国开放全球最大的电影资料库

 One of the birthplaces of cinema, Germany today possesses huge film archives crammed¹ with 150,000 movies found on 1 million rolls of film.

The film heritage is preserved by the Federal Film Archives, which operates from Berlin and six other cities.

On November l, 1895, Max Skladanowsky made history by presenting the first "living pictures" in Berlin, followed a month later by France's Lumiere showing their first films in a Paris cafe.

"In fact, cinema was invented in several places around the world at almost the same time," says Karl Griep, a departmental head at the archives office in Berlin.

"We have the Skladanowsky film in our archives, along with many other historical works," says Griep, noting that his archive is one of the most comprehensive in the world, documenting more than 100 years of movie history.

Since the establishment of the Federal Film Archives in the 1950s, it has acquired a vast collection of films of all genres², catalogued and, in some cases, digitally restored.

"We seek a wide variety of films, refusing to restrict ourselves purely³ to top cultural and famous feature productions," Griep explains.

"This means our collection is comprehensive, and reflects the society, fashion and cultural tastes of Germany at different periods, from the silent movie era onwards, through the Weimar and Nazi⁴ periods to the present time."Visitors from many parts of the world come to the archives every month.

1 crammed   

adj.塞满的，挤满的；大口地吃；快速贪婪地吃v.把…塞满；填入；临时抱佛脚( cram的过去式)

参考例句：

• He crammed eight people into his car. 他往他的车里硬塞进八个人。
• All the shelves were crammed with books. 所有的架子上都堆满了书。

2 genres   

（文学、艺术等的）类型，体裁，风格( genre的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Novel and short story are different genres. 长篇小说和短篇小说是不同的类别。
• But confusions over the two genres have a long history. 但是类型的混淆，古已有之。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译

3 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。

4 Nazi   

n.纳粹分子，adj.纳粹党的，纳粹的

参考例句：

• They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
• Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。