Audiovisual documents are works comprising reproducible images and/or sounds embodied in a carrier whose;
• recording, transmission, perception and comprehension usually requires a technological device
• visual and/or sonic content has linear duration
• purpose is the communication of that content, rather than use of the technology for other purposes.
Edmondson, Ray., 2004, Audiovisual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, p. 23.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.