Neil Armstrong putting his and the first human foot on the moon, Louis Davids singing ‘Doe het elektrisch' in a 1932 commercial, the first images of nudity on Dutch television, the sound of a Trabant engine in former East-Berlin, André Hazes’ latest CD, or today’s morning television news: these are the kinds of images, sound recordings, CD’s and broadcasts stored at Sound and Vision.
The institute houses the largest collection of television and radio broadcast recordings, music, (amateur) film, photographs and relics from the Netherlands’ media history. However, it also stores government collections, and collections from social or political organizations, companies and people. He oldest material hails back to the late 19th century. Sound and Vision also keeps works from well-known Dutch cinematographers, such as Bert Haanstra, Herman van der Horst, and Nico Crama.
Nowadays, all public broadcasts automatically flow into Sound and Vision’s technical facilities for digital storage. The list of programs is endless, but here are a few: the news, programs covering current topics, television series, games shows, documentaries, feature-length films, talk shows, consumer programs, children’s programs, and concert registrations.
Dutch broadcast icons, such as ‘Per Seconde Wijzer’, ‘Paspoort’, ‘Medisch Centrum West’, ‘Hadimassa’, ‘Blik op de Weg’, ‘Jiskefet’, ‘De Stille Kracht’, ‘Vinger aan de Pols’, ‘Oud Geld’, ‘Costa!’, ‘Een van de Acht’, or ‘Toppop’: all of them can be found at Sound and Vision.
Over the years, Sound and Vision has also acquired a very extensive collection of radio broadcasts, containing numerous portraits of writers and artists, magnificent radio documentaries, unique sound-pictures, and travel reports.
See also www.beeldengeluid.nl
