Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 350

Title

Records of the International Monitor Institute

Date(s)

1980 - 2002

Description Level

Fonds

Extent and medium (processed)

1769 BetaSP NTSC, 53.07 linear meters
14 VHS NTSC, 0.35 linear meters
118 VHS PAL, 2.95 linear meters
10 BetaSP PAL, 0.3 linear meters
3 SVHS PAL, 0.07 linear meters
1 mini DV, 0.0 linear meters

Context

Name of creator(s)

International Monitor Institute

Archival history

In 2002 Pippa Scott (producer of the Dallas series and once a successful Broadway actress in her own right) donated her collection of over 5,000 hours of footage documenting genocide in recent years to the Open Society Archives (OSA) at Central European University (CEU). In the past, OSA, together with the Open Society Institute, had provided substantial support for to the activities of Ms Scott's archive.

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

The 'Genocide Archive' consist of approx. 5.000 hours video footage documenting genocide in Europe, Asia the Middle East and Africa in the1990s and early 2000.

The 'Balkan Archives' comprises more than 3,000 hours of Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, English, American, German and other Western news programs, television reports, propaganda films and documentaries about the most tragic events of the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. The Balkan collection also hosts recordings of the post-war trial proceedings at the ICTY.

The Genocide Archive further fetaures amateur and raw footage, documentaries, top secret propaganda materials and news reports about grave human rights violations in Burma, Cambodia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and the Middle East. The bulk of the collection was produced by international civil and intergovermental agencies, media companies and civil liberties groups engaged in worldwide campaigns to defend human rights, to pinpoint oppressive regimes and human rights violations.

Accruals

Not Expected

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

Open to researchers.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyrights are held by producers (no rights are held by OSA at CEU).

Languages

Afghan Persian, Dari, Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Burmese, Central Khmer, Croatian, Danish, Dutch; Flemish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Macedonian, Persian, Pushto; Pashto, Russian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Spanish; Castilian, Swedish, Turkish

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Video footage are recorded on Beta Sp NTSC (approx. 75% ) and on VHS NTSC (25%).