Part of Audiovisual archives
The sound records contain mostly sound recordings of conferences and other events, speeches of the Director General and other important persons, but also music recordings, interviews and the UNESCO radio programs.
The photo and audiovisual archives consist of analogue and digital records dating from 1945 up until the present day.Photographs: 140,000 black and white negatives; 1,000 colour 35mm négatives; 29,000 35mm colour slides; 15,000 duplicate cover sli...
Part of Audiovisual archives
The film archives of UNESCO are divided into three parts:The archives of film productions, containing about 7500 film cans of material produced by UNESCO itself.The archives of reference films, containing about 1100 works which not have been produ...
Part of Audiovisual archives
The photo archives cover the period from the foundation of UNESCO until today and contain photographic material of all big events, conferences, meetings which include the participation of the Director General, visits of the important persons and m...
Sound records of conferences and meetings
Part of Audiovisual archives
These sound records contain mostly floor recordings of conferences and other events, speeches of the Director General and other important persons and systematic recordings of all meetings of the General Conference and the Executive Board.
Part of Audiovisual archives
The aim of UNESCO radio was to contribute to the understanding of the ideals that the Organization stands for, through discussion of issues in the field of education, science, culture and communication. Around fifteen 30-minute feature programmes ...
Part of Audiovisual archives
The first documentary films produced by the organisation were published in the 1950s in order to show the activities of the organisation and to promote them to the external public. In 1958 a unit for radio and television production was established...
[David "Chim"] Seymour - Calabre
Part of Audiovisual archives
The album consists of contact sheets of images taken by David Seymour while on assignment for UNESCO in Calabria, Italy, in the context of a programme on illiteracy; and typed notes/captions detailing information about the photographic subjects. N...