Photographs
Since its first years in operation, the Instituto requested its companies to submit collections of photos which are representative of the industrial facilities or of significant public events, periodically requesting their update.
These photos were used for making known INI’s activities to other institutions, in INI’s publications, at trade fairs and exhibitions.
With the aim of preserving the original material and making known the photo collection, 5,427 images of facilities, factories, works, products, services, institutional events, etc. corresponding to a number of INI’s companies, have been digitalized; these images span from 1950 to the eighties.
It is possible to have a direct access for consulting the photo collection.
The downloaded images will be privately used and exclusively for teaching or research purposes, for any other use it is required SEPI’s specific authorization (request for making use of images).
To consult the image catalog click this link.
Films
The industrial films produced by INI about its companies’ activities shared the informative and propagandistic aim of the photographs.
Their theme could be either about the technical processes carried out at the factories, or about the activities or the facilities of a company or of several companies grouped together on the basis of industrial sectors in which INI took part.
The films were made from the forties until the eighties, although most of the collection corresponds to the fifties and sixties.
Many of these films were directed by Mr. Luis Suárez de Lezo y López Altamirano, a key person in the development of the documentaries in his capacity as manager of INI’s Graphical Information Service from 1954 to 1963.
INI’s film collection are kept in the Filmoteca Española (FE) for their preservation and making them available to the scientific community and citizens.
Cataloging, inspection, and restoration of INI’s film collection
SEPI began a process for the recovery, inventory, and restoration of this collection with the “Cataloging, inspection, and restoration of the documentary collection owned by SEPI and kept at the Filmoteca Española” project, which entailed collaborating with the Filmoteca Española and TRAGSATEC. It took place from 2019 to 2021 and had an initial financial aid from the Bank of Spain.
It has entailed the cataloging of 134 titles and 456 materials and the inspection and cataloging of 726 roll films, resulting in a complete inventory-catalogue of the cinematographic films and materials which are part of the “INI film collection”.
Digital preservation
This project has involved the restoration and digitalization of nine titles, which entail 120 minutes.
As in the case of the photographs, the use of films for any other purpose than teaching or research requires SEPI’s express authorization (request for making use of images).
List of digitized films accessible in VIMEO
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Industrias en el Noroeste. Luis Suárez de Lezo, director. 1956. (11 minutes.) A tour of the facilities of the companies in which INI had a shareholding and located on the Spanish Northwest. ENDESA (Compostilla), MONCABRIL, FRIGSA, ENCASO (Puentes de García Rodríguez) and BAZÁN. |
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A la mar, acero. Luis Suárez de Lezo, director. 1956. (11 minutes). It shows INI’s participation in the shipbuilding industry, through the companies ELCANO, BAZÁN, ASCASA and Dique Seco Nuestra Señora del Rosario. |
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Operación frío. Luis Suárez de Lezo, director. 1958. (12 minutes). Documental on INI’s contribution to the food industry, through a tour of three of the first cold storage plants set up in Spain: IGFISA, IFESA and FRIGSA. |
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El gas de Morcba. Luis Suárez de Lezo, director. 1968. (11 minutes). Title produced by INI related to the exploit of the Bucraa phosphates mines. This time, it consists in a short report produced in collaboration with ENMINSA on the test drillings made in the areas of the province of Sahara nearest to the mines. |
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Distribución de la energía eléctrica. Luis Suárez de Lezo, director. 1963. (5,14 minutes). News documental about the way of transporting the electricity from the hydroelectric and thermal power stations to its consumption by the public and its use by the Households. It combines real and animated images. |
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Proceso de pirogenación de las pizarras bituminosas para la obtención de aceites lubricantes. Luis Suárez de Lezo, director. 1960. (5 minutes). Explanation of this technical procedure at the ENCASO facilities, in Puertollano. With a didactic and informative nature, it combines real images with drawings and graphics. |
[Catálogo FE-Proceso de pirogenación de las pizarras bituminosas...] |
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Botadura. Luis Suárez de Lezo, director. 1961. (5 minutes). Explanation of the launching of ship, with the different tasks carried out for the launch of the ships built at the shipyards’ slipways. Filmed at ELCANO, BAZÁN and ASCASA |
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El oleoducto Málaga-Puertollano. Luis Suárez de Lezo, director. 1968. (30 minutes). Technical description of the works carried out by ENCASO for the construction of an oil pipeline which would be the first commercial one installed in Spain for transporting crude oil from the port of Malaga to the new oil refinery installed at the Puertollano industrial site, going through the Castilian highlands and thus contributing to the industrial development of the central area of the country. |
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Los caminos del INI. Juan Cobos, director. 1976. (28 minutes). A film review about the different activities and industries which were covered by INI in Spain and in the rest of the world, through the most representative domestic industries at that time. |
Documents and links
Documents
Links
- Catalogue of the Filmoteca Española: Access to the search of the files of the catalogue of the film works produced by INI. Select "Búsqueda avanzada" (advanced search) and consult by Production, entering INI.
- File of the Catalogue of the documental films of Instituto Nacional de Industria kept at Biblioteca Central del Ministerio de la Presidencia, Relaciones con las Cortes y Memoria Democrática.