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The Museum of the cinema was opened in 1998. In January of 1994 the council of the city makes it from the donation of the particular funds of Tomàs Mallol. These donation consisted on a collection of cinematographic and precinematographic devices recognized at the international level. This is a unique museum where you can make a journey through 500 years of history of the images knowing from the antecedents and origins of the cinema until the arrival of the television. The museum consists on 20000 pieces, aproximately 8000 objects, devices and precinematographics accesories and from the cinema of the first years. It's also kept around 10000 documents with steady images like photographies, posters, engravings and paints, 800 movies and a library with more than 700 books and magazines. The objects collected bellow to the period covered between middle of the 17th century and 1970. The bast majority of the elements of the collection are from the second half of the 18th century and the begining of the 20th century.
After the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) he was installed in Barcelona where he started working as a photographer and publicist, that ended by configuring his professional profile. After getting married, he started to frequent the photographic agrupation of the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya, there he stated meeting people with whom shared as him the passion for the photography and amateur cinema. In 1956 he made his first movie named El pastor de Can Sopa (The shepherd of Can Sopa). Also the same year he debuted in the profesional cinema as a photography director, in the italian and spanish coproduction named Su propio destino (His own fate). Then he abandoned the profesional cinema and founded the UCA, the Amateur Filmmaker Union in Barcelona. He made numerous short films characterised by his perfectionism and the low speed of the images that reflect his studies of the relation between space and time. This short movies were recognised by some international awards in the amateur cinema. At the mid sixties he started to collect different devices and gatgets without having the will to become a collectionist. Some years later, he started to his own retrospective collection of the cinema at all levels. From this moment he started a intensive activity and research of objects that take him to create a this collection of the objects and gatgets of the precinema and the first years of it.
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Tomàs Mallol was born in Sant Pere Pescador in 1923. In his childhood he was already very passsioned for the cinema. At the age of eight years he build up a projector to entretain his friends and family. This projector is nowadays also kept in the collection.