The Library of Congress will continue its dedication to new media innovation by collaborating with France's Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA) to exchange digitized film and television content capturing the essence of Franco-American relations.
The two parties plan to share more than 500 hours of footage over the next three years to facilitate the analysis of how each country depicts the other in domestic media.
"For INA, this arrangement with the Library of Congress, after several years of necessary discussions, is a major step to realize this objective of having a world library where citizens may access, study and understand our history, evolution and thoughts through one of the greatest mirror of humanity which is audiovisual production," chairman Mathieu Gallet explained.
Although the content conversion process is still ongoing, the digitized media will be made available through each nation's cultural institution with a limited array of public-domain files hosted online and free to the public through the World Digital Library.
According to the Washington Post, the wide-ranging subject matter spans everything from historical pieces on post-World War II relations to travel documentaries and artist biographies.
