UN World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
UN Audiovisual Department Celebrates its Legacy and History
27 October is World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. In case you missed it. How could you? The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is when we celebrate our shared history through images, sounds, and the footage that holds our memories.
The UN’s very own audiovisual department is one of the most treasured divisions at the UN for us journalists, editors, radio, TV, online, and podcast producers who cherish understanding how the organisation came to be, hearing the many voices that throughout history shaped it, and seeing where it is headed.
From the rushes of daily press conferences to the images of the organization’s founding, the UN AV Library holds over 6.330 hours of historical content in 35, 16, and 8mm film, 49.400 hours of video, 800.000 photographs, 18.000 of audio recordings and more, stored in its off-site archives.
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