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Item Preservation of Films as Cultural Heritage of a Nation (Special Reference to Sri Lankan Film Industry)(5th National Conference on Applied Social Statistics (NRCASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Ruwanpathirana, I.Film is a collective art form, the cinema is a highly synthesized art. It is incorporated with music, dancing, drama, poetry, literature, sculpting, interior designing, painting, martial arts and many other different expressions of human totality. And it communicates through visuals and sounds. Visual is dominant and the sound comes next. What are these visuals and what are these sounds? That’s nothing else, these are the visuals of what we see in our day today lives and what we here every day or these are something we dream, imagine. Films have documented this world for more than one hundred and twenty years. Filmmakers have captured how generations of people have lived, worked, and dreamed. Then the cinema is seemed to be a modern electronic chronicle which is successfully recorded all the complexities, paradoxes, lineal developments or downfalls of country’s human being. Sri Lanka has produced around more than 1310 main stream films & large amount of documentaries and news reels. And Sri Lanka is acclaimed for generating internationally demarcated film makers and their awarded films But Sri Lanka still doesn’t have at least one proper film archive. Forming a film archive is still an unsolved problem in Sri Lanka. The objectives of this study are investigating the existing film preservation practice in Sri Lanka and emphasize the importance of film preservation for a country as their nation heritage. This research was conducted as a desk study. This study has articulated number of secondary data. These materials have sufficiently been utilized for the paper. Preliminary data have been gathered by using personal interviews and did one case study in order to study some important areas of the research. It was found by this study that Sri Lanka does not have a state controlled technically organized system for film preservation. Since the country does not have a national film archive, this entity has been recognized as a lucrative commercial zone by the private entrepreneurship. Initially they were film enthusiastic people and film collectors who did not have a sufficient knowledge or the technology for preservationItem Film Radio Television Research Publications: A Global Perspective.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Subbiah, M.The study analyses the film radio television in Global for a period of twenty-four years (1993-2017) based on the Web of Science database core collection. The objective of the study was to perform a Scientometric analysis of all film radio television research publications by Global scientists. The parameters studied include the growth of publications and citations, relative growth rate and doubling time, national and international collaboration, highly productive institutions, highly productive authors, highly preferred journals and highly cited publications. A total of 194 publications were published by the Global scientists in film radio television during 1993-2017 which received 825 citations (without self-citation 801). The highest number of publications 37 was published in 2016. RMIT University topped the list with 28 publications which received 55 citations. Australia is a top producing country with 69 publications (35.6%, TLCS 4, TGCS 123). H-index 12; citation per item 4.23