FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2026

The Museum of Image and Sound of Ceará (MIS CE) was established with the mission of preserving and promoting the state’s audiovisual heritage. Today, its collection is estimated at around 160,000 items, including part of the archive of Educational Television (TVE). Founded in 1974, TVE was created to produce educational content for the Ceará State Secretariat of Culture and Education through a tele-education system.
When the museum was founded in 1980, part of the TVE collection was incorporated into its holdings. This material includes records, 16 mm film reels, and slides. As one of the earliest collections within MIS CE, it was affected over time by relocations and interruptions in preservation processes.
In 2022, the museum was reopened and expanded with a new annex building. This facility includes updated storage areas as well as preservation and digitization laboratories. With new technologies, such as a film scanner, the museum has significantly enhanced its ability to process and share its collections, particularly the TVE archive. A recent assessment helped identify losses that occurred during past relocations and determine how much of the collection still requires digitization.
During the digitization process, numerous materials of historical, cultural, and political significance to the state were identified. This collection reinforces the role of television archives in shaping identity, as it reveals transformations within communities and traces the development of regional social values.
In this context, the history of audiovisual production and television in Ceará - home to the third television station established in the region -, can now be revisited through previously inaccessible sources. It also opens new avenues for research into these materials, contributing to a broader understanding of television history in Brazil.

This communication aims to present the first audiovisual preservation efforts at the State University of Goiás, starting with the creation of the University Laboratory of Audiovisual Memory (LUMINAV), the first in the Brazilian Midwest dedicated to this purpose in a public university. In less than a year of existence, LUMINAV has already managed to digitize and catalog the entire collection of the UEG Cinema and Audiovisual Course (more than 500 short productions in 20 years), in addition to having received more than 1500 items in two collections of inestimable value to 
the culture of Goiás: the Caravídeo collection - containing records of traditional communities, cultural events and social movements active in the state in the early 2000s - and the collection donated by anthropologist Telma Camargo, with accounts from people affected by the Cesium-137 disaster in Goiânia.
This paper also presents the challenges for LUMINAV's permanent and sustainable work in preserving audiovisual memory in Goiás, a territory where public policies for audiovisual media prioritize production and exhibition events, without concern for sound and image heritage accompanying these funding opportunities. Through documentary analysis of the laws that guarantee public funding opportunities for culture in Goiás over the last 10 years (2016-2026), we seek to outline a panorama of public policies for audiovisual media in the state, as well as to point out ways in which audiovisual preservation is considered not through isolated proposals, but as a category eligible for permanent resource allocation.

The project aims to rescue and to put into value the oldest surviving sound newsreels in Chile. Because they are in 35mm nitrate film, they are inaccessible to the public due to the lack of other film or digital copies. To achieve these objectives, the project includes the following stages: cleaning and physical restoration, 4K digitization, detailed cataloging, backup on LTO-9 tapes, and online publication via the Chilean National Film Archive's platform. These actions will allow for the registration, inventorying, and documentation of a valuable historical heritage collection, ensuring its long-term preservation and future availability for public use.


The collection of sound newsreels produced by the state-owned company Chile Films between 1944 and 1949 constitutes a valuable social, economic, and cultural record of Chile in the 1940s. These images and sounds are practically unknown to current generations, making their rescue, enhancement, and preservation essential for Chileans (and the world at large) to discover and to enjoy them. Because they were filmed nearly 80 years ago, the original film stock is now very fragile (nitrate film can spontaneously combust and, over time, becomes cloudy, making recovery impossible). Therefore, their digitization and transfer to more stable formats that allow for their preservation and dissemination are urgently needed.