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"Archives at Risk: The main objectives of celebrating the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage are:
Protecting the World's Identities“ (a) raising public awareness of the need for preservation;
(b) providing opportunities to celebrate specific local, national or international
The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage provides an occasion to raise
general awareness of the need to take urgent measures and to aspects of the heritage;
acknowledge the importance of audiovisual documents. (c) highlighting the accessibility of archives;
(d) attracting media attention to heritage issues;
Audiovisual documents, such as films, radio and television (e) raising the cultural status of the audiovisual heritage;
programmes, audio and video recordings, contain the primary (f) highlighting audiovisual heritage in danger, especially in developing countries.
records of the 20th and 21st centuries are extremely vulnerable and
it is estimated that we have no more than 10 to 15 years to transfer
audiovisual records to digital to prevent their loss. October 27, is
observed as the World Day for Audio Visual Heritage, to protect and
safeguard the heritage of audiovisual media like film, television,
radio, photographic prints, etc. This is done by building global
awareness of issues on preserving audiovisual material, such as

sound recordings and moving images.

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