World Day for Audiovisual Heritage seeks to raise awareness about the need to preserve audiovisual documents such as films or radio and television segments. This day aims to safeguard historical audiovisual documents so that they remain accessible to the public and to future generations.
Top X Posts (formerly Tweets) for World Day for Audiovisual Heritage - in 2021
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Today is World Audiovisual Heritage Day! This b&w photo is of the Fox News Movietone camera filming at the Wanganui River Carnival in 1930. A unique 'talkie' capable camera, it captured sound as well as moving images. Collection ref: 1802.2928 #AudiovisualHeritageDay https://t.co/WsPojhf2ZH
Today is World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, & libraries play a unique role in the collection and preservation of primary & secondary source images/audio/film, especially of historical events & figures whose voices could be lost forever once they are gone without these efforts. https://t.co/c02WIWmcjr