
Memory of the World: Why Documentary Heritage Matters, UNESCO, Paris, France.
In this animation film the Memory of the World Committee of the Netherlands shows the importance of documentary heritage and the rationale behind Unesco’s Memory of the World Programme.
The film was created by Studio Noord (www.studionoord.nl | CC BY-NC-ND). It was commissioned by the Memory of the World Commitee of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Commission for Unesco. Images have been used of documents that have a Memory of the World designation. The Netherlands MoW Committee wishes to thank the affiliated institutions for making these images available for this film.
For further information about the project, see The Future of Collective Memory: Preserving the Past in a Digital Age. The Memory of the World International Register is available here.