Journal of Film Preservation N° 60/61 - FIAF

assurer les meilleures conditions de conservation, la température
moyenne varie entre 5 et 10°C. La mission de l’archive principale
d’Azerbaïdjan est la conservation perpétuelle des matériaux se rapportant
au patrimoine cinématographique national et international.
La collection continue de s’enrichir alors qu’une rénovation de l’infrastructure
en fera un complexe polyvalent. La FIAF a grandement
contribué à la concrétisation de ces projets. La visite de Paolo
Cherchi Usai représente un premier pas pour l’archive dans sa
volonté de collaboration avec les archives des autres pays.
The Dutch National Audiovisual Collection
Report of a Survey
Robert Egeter-van Kuyk
Introduction
Since the beginning of the 20th Century the safeguarding of moving
images, and later or sound recordings as well, has been discussed in
Holland; these discussions have led to a number of initiatives when
the Central Film Archive was established in 1919, to be abolished
around World War II, and later in 1947 and following years when a
few organisations within and outside Government service started to
take care of some parts of the national Dutch production in moving
images. These initiatives, though timely and enthusiastic, were not
co-ordinated and it was only in 1987 that the four audiovisual
archives at national level - the Film Museum, the Government
Information Service Film Archive, the moving images and recorded
sound archive of NOS radio and television, and the Film and Science
Foundation - produced a joint paper on the need to co-ordinate and
speed up activities to work at the considerable backlogs in
preservation and cataloguing.
One may now have a déjà-vu experience - isn’t that something that
has already been said in so many countries ? Indeed, there are even
international recommendations to safeguard the audiovisual heritage
and a number of international professional organisations have been
for many years specifically working for that purpose, and have in fact
greatly increased the public awareness of the importance of recorded
sound, television programmes and films, both as documents in their
own right and as sources for research purposes. These organisations -
IASA, FIAF and FIAT, and the International Council on Archives -
and their regional counterparts like SEAPAVAA in the Pacific and S.E.
Asia, have also produced a number of most useful publications to
streamline and guide audiovisual archiving.
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