October 27, International Day for Audiovisual Heritage. Audiovisual archives are a very important source of information about the history of the lives of people around the world with a large scale celebrated by the culture in general. They represent an invaluable legacy that bears witness to our collective memory. They reflect the cultural, social and linguistic diversity of peoples. Audiovisual archives help us grow and understand the world in which we all live together. Preserving this heritage and ensuring access to it for every person and future generations is the most important goal of archival institutions and society as a whole.
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage celebrates the adoption in 1980 at the 21st General Conference of UNESCO of the Recommendation for the Protection and Conservation of Moving Images. This provides an opportunity to raise public awareness of the need for urgent action, the audiovisual international celebration reflects the mandate enshrined in the UNESCO Constitution to promote “the free flow of ideas by word or image” as a reflection of our common heritage and memory importance of documents.
This year, the main theme of the World Auditory-Visual Heritage Day is “Your Window to the World.” As objects of documentary heritage, audio-visual materials open the world a window through which we observe events where we cannot be present, we hear voices from the past that can no longer talk. Audiovisual materials play an increasingly important role in our lives as we strive to understand the MPR and interact with other people.
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Annaberdi KASHANOV,
1st year student of the International Journalism
Faculty of the Institute of International Relations
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.
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