FIAT/IFTA celebrates UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage in Beijing
At the close of the FIAT/IFTA World Conference in Beijing, the President, Mr Herbert Hayduck, along with the Executive Council of FIAT/IFTA held a joint celebration with conference host CCTV and guest sister organisations from ASBU and SEAPAVA to officially mark the World Day.
The event was broadcast by CCTV international news service :
News-Item on the UNESCO World Day from the CCTV News-Reel
©2009 by CCTV
In a statement to those gathered, Mr Hayduck cited the need for audio visual archives everywhere " to celebrate this day and rally together with others across the world to trumpet the value and importance of these archives ". He noted that the theme of the 2009 World Day "Our fading Heritage – we can save it" "is not just about the past – it is about saving both our legacy collections and the born digital – these were some of the challenges .. addressed in this FIAT conference " .
Also included in his statement was the message of outgoing Director-General of UNESCO Mr Koïchiro Matsuura to the FIAT conference delegates, in which he said: "They (audiovisual archives) can be saved before they reach this point of no return". Mr Hayduck confirmed FIAT’s will to fully support this global goal.
FIAT/IFTA members also celebrated World Day in many different ways; here are some of the highlights:
New Zealand
On 27 October 2008, the News Archive at TVNZ (a New Zealand national television broadcaster) recorded a full day’s output from their organization’s new digital news and documentary channel, TVNZ 7 onto Betacam SP tapes and now have a physical record of how TVNZ 7 looked in its inaugural year of operation.
This year, they recorded a full day’s output from TVNZ’s oldest channel, TV ONE onto Digibeta tapes.
Slovenia
TV Slovenia broadcast the programmes “Dalekozor” about the history of Slovenian television and about the development of media.
In cooperation with Youth Centre and Association of Youth’s Friends in the town Litija, they organized workshops for the children about films, about TV archives, with a presentation of film materials about Litija carneval in 60-ies, 70-ies, 80-ies and 90-ies and organized a visit of Television and TV archives.
In cooperation with Regional archives in Maribor TV archives prepared a video of industrial gigant in Maribor “Hidromontaža”. The film materials from the archives are incorporated into the video. The video was part of a presentation at the exhibition in Maribor on the 27. October.
Cambodia ,Phnom Penh
Since 2007, the date of the first celebration of the World Day, the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Centre has offered each year, in collaboration with UNESCO, a day of meetings and reflections around a question peculiar to audiovisual archives in Cambodia.
The 2009 day is devoted to the Cambodian Sound and Musical Heritage. This beautiful promotional flyer was produced to promote the event which included screening on a giant screen of several documentary films about the Cambodian Sound and Musical Heritage along with a series of lectures and recordings.
Brazil
The Federal Senate of Brazil presented an exhibition to celebrate the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, including audio excerpts from five speeches delivered in plenary sessions of great relevance to the recent history of Brazil. Exhibitoin to run from 27th through to 30th October, available to the public. The audio documents were retrieved from analog recordings generated in the 1960s and were stored in digital systems, where they can be safely preserved. The exhibition is organized by SSCODA - the Undersecretariat for Digital Conversion of Audiovisual Collections (CEDOC Multimídia), the unit in charge of preservation of the Senate audiovisual heritage. SSCODA (CEDOC Multimídia) thus reasserts the proposals contained in the Declaration of CHURUBUSCO, signed in Mexico in 2005, at the 3rd International Seminar of Sound and Audiovisual Archives. The Senate of Brazil was also represented in the international congresses promoted by FIAT (Fédération Internationale des Archives de Télévision) in 2000 and 2007.
FOCAL & BAFTA
FOCAL International & BAFTA celebrated UNESCO World Audiovisual Archive Day on Monday 26th October at 18.00 - 20.30
Each year the day provides an international rallying point for archives across the world to celebrate and recognize the value of these archives to future generations. BAFTA is again delighted to have the support of FOCAL International and to be able to invite you to a full evening including:
» Introduction by Karena Smith, BAFTA Archive Consultant
» UNESCO message
» An Academic perspective of Audio visual Archives and Restoration by Professor John Ellis (Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London)
» Case Study – Restoration of the Red Shoes ; Fiona Maxwell (ITV Global Entertainment) takes us through the restoration of the Michael Powell classic.
USA
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts celebrated UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage with the debut of its online AV Media Preservation Video Series
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), the United States’ largest nonprofit paper conservation lab, debued its audiovisual media preservation video series as part of the United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on October 27, 2009 at www.ccaha.org. A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media will be permanently accessible on CCAHA’s website.
CCAHA staff and experts traveled to eight cities throughout the United States over the course of four years to present its two-day educational program.
CCAHA asked leaders in the field of audiovisual preservation to take part in the video series. Presenters are George Blood, President, Safe Sound Archives, Philadelphia, PA; Alan Lewis, Consultant in Audiovisual Archives, Washington, DC; and Sarah Stauderman, Preservation Manager, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, DC. They present timely and thorough audiovisual media preservation information in the following CCAHA video segments:
- Audiovisual preservation basics
- Film Preservation
- Audio Preservation
- Video Preservation
- Contracting for Reformatting
These videos were made possible through funding from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation with additional support from the Institute for Museum and Library Studies (IMLS) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Kim Andrews, Preservation Services Officer.
Ivory Coast / Côte d’Ivoire
Célébration de la Journée Mondiale du Patrimoine Audiovisuelle:
A l’instar des autres télévisions du monde, la Radiodiffusion Télévision Ivoirienne (R.T.I.) a patronné la célébration de la journée mondiale du patrimoine audiovisuel, décrétée tous les 27 octobre de l’année par l’Unesco. Dans les préparatifs de cette journée, nous avons tenu des séances de travail avec les services des ministères ayant en leur sein un département d’archives. La R.T.I. étant le seul média de l’Etat qui détient les archives audiovisuelles à souvent abrité ces rencontres. Aussi avec la bibliothèque de la commission nationale de l’Unesco nous avons monté le projet de programme de cette année 2009.
Diffusion de spots d’annonce sur les chaînes de radio et les deux chaînes de télévision.
Diffusion de bandes déroulantes " 27 octobre 2009, journée mondiale du patrimoine audiovisuel "
L’émission hebdomadaire sur les archives diffusée régulièrement a été pondérée par la diffusion de trois programmes de 26 minutes trois jours durant, les 25 26 et 27 octobre. 08h et 19h sur la première chaîne et la chaîne deux de la télévision.
Nous avons prévu le montage d’une exposition de matériel audiovisuel ancien, ce projet a été remplacé par la diffusion sur la première chaîne de télévision d’un reportage sur les machines anciennes en service.
A l’issu de la diffusion des éléments d’archive, nous avons été submergés de demande de copie par les acteurs de ces films ou par leur proche qui souhaitent garder un souvenir de leur parent.
Les étudiants, section patrimoine audiovisuel de l’Ecole Nationale d’Administration (E.N.A.) ont visité les archives audiovisuelles de la R.T.I. pour se rendre compte de la richesse archivistique de leur pays la Côte d’Ivoire.
Programmes diffusés:
- Qui êtes vous Laurent Pokou, footballeur ivoirien (1ère diffusion 1984)
- Visite à Yamoussoukro du Président Sékou Touré de la Guinée
- Premier gouvernement formé par F.H.B.
- Rose Marie Guiraud (artiste chorégraphe, la seule qui a une fondation en C.I.)
- Grand débat : la banque mondiale et l’Afrique, (1ère diffusion le 09 septembre 1982)
- 30 ans de musique en CI avec Fax Clack, Manu Dibango et autre sommités de la musique, (1ère diffusion le 13 novembre 1993)
Cette célébration a ouvert les portes de notre maison des archives et a ouvert aux populations la possibilité de savoir que la R.T.I. garde la mémoire du pays.
Madagascar
Programme élaboré par Madagascar en vue de la célébration de la journée mondiale du patrimoine audiovisuels du 27 Octobre 2009
Diffusion d'une émission TV (40 minutes) durant la soirée du 27 octobre 2009
Thème de l'UNESCO : "Patrimoine éphémère, nous pouvons le sauver"
Thèmes abordés: L’importance de la sauvegarde du patrimoine audiovisuel / Actions ministérielles par rapport à la sauvegarde / Où en sont les autres entités pour la sauvegarde de leurs Archives / La valorisation (Dépot légal / exploitation)
Diffuseurs: TVM (national) et RTA (privé)
Intervenants :
- M. directeur général de la culture / Ministère de la Culture et du Patrimoine
- Mme. Directrice des archives nationales
- Mme. représentante de l’ANTA (Archives photographiques)
- M. Directeur général de l'ORTM (office de la radio et télévision de Madagascar)
- Association FL@H (alain et hoby)
Manifestation organisée en partenariat avec le Centre Culturel Français (Albert Camus) du 27 au 31 Octobre 2009 dans le cadre de la célébration de la journée mondiale du patrimoine audiovisuel :
- Projection publique journalière de films d’archives de différents thèmes des années 50 et 60
- Exposition de photos tirées de films 35 mm et 16 mm
- Exposition du musée du Cinéma malgache
- Rencontre professionnelle (avec différents acteurs culturels et économique, diffuseurs, agence de communication…) pour un atelier débat sur la valorisation des archives numérisées par l’Association Fl@h
- Rencontre de la Présidente de l’association avec les cinéphiles de la capitale. Partage d’expérience
Cette semaine de manifestation a connu un succès sans précédent car il y eut plus de 850 visiteurs ; qui veulent que nous renouvelions cette initiative au moins une fois par trimestre.
FIAT/IFTA
FIAT/IFTA renewed its call for all Television output to be recorded on this year’s world day for the preservation of the audiovisual heritage.
FIAT/IFTA is committed to the principle of making the contents of television archives as widely available as possible for study by the academic community. It is clear from academics that one of the things they would value most would be the ability to study recordings of complete and uninterrupted days of output from the past and to compare the output of different broadcasters, both within and between nations. This is not the sort of material that has usually been preserved by broadcasters and only rarely by those few national archives which deal with television material.
FIAT/IFTA uses the occasion of the UNESCO World Day for the Preservation of the Audiovisual Heritage, to call upon broadcasters, national archives and academic institutions throughout the world to make plans to record, preserve and, wherever possible, make available for study, all television output from this year’s World Day, 27th October 2009.
This call is an initiative of the FIAT/IFTA Television Studies Commission.
