SAVE - Safeguarding the audiovisual heritage in Saxony

Since 2019, the SLUB Dresden has been involved in the SAVE programme for the preservation, digitisation and provision of historical film, video and sound recordings from Saxony. The Saxon State Ministry of Science, Culture and Tourism supports the programme. In cooperation with the Saxony Film Association, over 100,000 minutes of film, video and sound recordings from the period between 1920 and 2011 have already been digitised and made available to the public.

About SAVE

Since 2019, the Free State of Saxony has been supporting the professional retro-digitisation and public accessibility of audiovisual cultural assets and research documents with Saxon relevance. The analogue film, video and sound media come from a wide variety of sources: from private collections, associations, city archives, libraries and local television stations, as well as from museum collections of national and international significance.

Dr. Ursula Köhler (1921-1995), psychologist at the Technical University of Dresden, speaking in lecture T109 in the studio of the Hygiene Museum ("The importance of play for the healthy development of infants and young children"), ca. 1961. Source: German Hygiene Museum

To this end, SLUB is working together with the Saxony Film Association, which had already launched a pilot phase in 2016 on issues of safeguarding the audiovisual heritage, and is acting as a coordinating body. It plans the respective course of the project, assesses the rights situation and creates public access by entering the digitised media into national catalogues and making them publicly accessible in the SLUB media library and, in the medium term, on sachsen.digital.

 

The SLUB commissions experienced external specialist service providers to digitise the various sources (magnetic sound tapes, film from 8mm to 35mm, self-cutting discs, video tapes). With the support of the coordination office, the programme participants take over the rights clearance, the content indexing of the sources and organise the preservation of the original source materials as their own contribution.

In 2020, 533 media units were digitised as part of the programme, adding up to 29,236 minutes of play - about one and a half hours for every day of the year... We invite you to visit the media library and explore Saxony's audiovisual heritage!

Latest news

  • Review of the exhibition "The preserved view - film and sound treasures from Saxony"

    Review of the exhibition "The preserved view - film and sound treasures from Saxony"

    From 20 April 2023 to 6 January 2024, the exhibition at the SLUB Dresden Book Museum was dedicated to the cinema of the everyday and the incidental. On show were amateur and travel films, ethnographic studies and experimental art. Here you can find impressions of the show.

  • SAVE am 17.04. & 21.04.2024 beim Filmfest Dresden

    SAVE am 17.04. & 21.04.2024 beim Filmfest Dresden

    In der Reihe Regionaler Fokus zeigen SLUB und Filmverband Sachsen beim 36. FILMFEST DRESDEN Ausschnitte aus ihrem gemeinsamen Digitalisierungsprogramm SAVE. Unter dem Titel »Als wär’s gestern – Filme aus den 1990ern« werden in diesem Jahr Highlights aus dem künstlerischen Schaffen der Dresdner Filmemacher Bernd Kilian und Tilo Schiemenz zu sehen sein.

  • 4th SAVE symposium on 5 March 2024

    4th SAVE symposium on 5 March 2024

    This year's symposium will take place on 5 March 2024 under the motto "Preserving, indexing and making accessible analogue audiovisual media". Interested parties from Saxon archives, museums, municipal administrations, libraries and specialist institutes, who are often also owners of analogue audiovisual media, are invited to attend. Participation is free of charge.

  • Annaberg-Buchholz film promenade in February/March 2024

    Annaberg-Buchholz film promenade in February/March 2024

    We unearth treasures - and show them to the public! In cooperation with the town of Annaberg-Buchholz, local businesses and the Saxony Film Association, the SLUB will be showing film clips of events from the town's history and everyday life at 14 locations in Annaberg-Buchholz in February/March 2024.

Contact

Write to us: save@slub-dresden.de

Lukas Schneider, Project Management(Lukas.Schneider@slub-dresden.de)

Clara Petersdorf, Technical Coordination and Cataloguing(clara.petersdorf@slub-dresden.de)

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