Shanghai Audio-Visual Archives screens historical documentaries

Watching precious historical documentaries
Searching for life memories of Shanghai Lane.
Shanghai Audio-Visual Archives’ celebration
for “the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage” 2013

October 27 was established as “the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage” by UNESCO. The theme for this year’s celebration is “Saving our Heritage for the Next Generation”. On October 27th 2013, Shanghai Audio-Visual Archives organized a documentary screening activity named “Watching precious historical documentaries, Searching for life memories of Shanghai Lane” in Astor House Hotel Shanghai, which has a history of more than 160 years.

During the event Shanghai Audio-Visual Archives showed two documentariesThe Shanghai Document (1927) and In New Shanghai (1950)，which reflect the main historical events of that time. Two films newly collected from private sources were also shown. They record the daily life in Shanghai Shikumen of 1930s. Shanghai Audio-Visual Archives expects to look for clues about the persons in the films through the media and internet.

The participants of this activity included experts engaging in Shanghai history research, journalists and many historical footage enthusiasts called by new media platform like wechat and microblog. Shanghai Audio-Visual Archives will always dedicate to collecting precious historical archive from home and abroad, and make good saving and utilization of them, in order to better “Saving our Heritage for the Next Generation”.