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HU OSA 350
Fonds 350: Records of the International Monitor Institute (IMI)

Date(s) 1990-2002

Extent and medium

30 [other], 0.03 linear meters
13 Archival boxes, 2 linear meters
1219 Beta SP, 37 linear meters
1245 VHS, 31 linear meters
Total: 69 linear meters

Name of creator(s) International Monitor Institute

Archival history

IIn 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.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

International Monitor Institute, Los Angeles, USA

Scope and content

The 'Genocide Archives' consist of approx. 5.000 hours video footage documenting genocide in Europe, Asia and Africa in 1990s and in recent years.

The 'Balkan Archives', the most significant part of the collection, 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 in the 1990s. At the same time, the Balkan Archives incorporate film of the trial proceedings themselves.

Home movies, documentaries made with concealed cameras, top secret propaganda materials prepared for in-house circulation in Burma, Cambodia, Rwanda, Sri-Lanka and the Middle East (including Iraq and Iran), testify to crimes against humanity and grave violations of human rights.
These footage were produced by international civil and intergovermental agencies, media companies and civil liberties groups who are engaged in worldwide campaigns to defend human rights, to highlight the misdeeds of inhuman regimes.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

Conditions governing access Open to researchers.

Conditions governing reproduction

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

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

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

Publication note

Original catalogue of 'Genocide Archive' is accessible at www.imisite.org

Note

Keywords: Balkan
ex-Yugoslavia
genocide
mass murder
rape
torture
killing
prison camp
forced labour camp
ethnic cleansing
military
para-military
refugee
refugee camp
forced migration
destructon of properties
destruction of cultural heritage

Date(s) of descriptions

Balkan Archives videos processed by Branislav Kovacevic and Sergei Dobrynin in 2003-2005. Catalogue revised by Zsuzsanna Zadori 10 June 2005.
Online version updated 18 December 2008
© 1995-2005 Open Society Archives at Central European University