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Rai archive is a unique company asset and a great treasure for the country. This is why UNESCO has included Teche Rai in its official register of Italian Records. |
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Rai Teche
In this context, the ongoing
enhancement of Teche's Multimedia
Catalogue (CMM) is even more
useful. The catalogue is expanded each
year by digitally storing all Rai television
and radio broadcasts and by gradually
recovering past material: on 31
December 2009, a total of 1,585,738
hours were available for consultation in
the catalogue.
Television content is being recovered,
stored and catalogued all the way back
to 1954. The CMM's advanced
technologies make it possible to view or
listen to the archived material from any
corporate workstation. The 'grabber'
system is operational within the Teche
Management to export the material in
the quality stored in the CMM onto
DVD or other digital formats ('matrix'
system). This utility, which was initially
assigned experimentally to the New
Media management and to Rai
Quirinale structure, is now also
operational in the regional offices of
Puglia and Umbria.
Besides the documentation of the
programmes broadcast every day by the
three general-interest networks and the
radio channels, the recovery of material
from the past is also taking place in the regional offices. This includes rough
material from the TGR and Tg2, in view
of the digitalisation of the programmes'
production process. The national
recovery of past material however has
now partly diminished, due mainly to
technical reasons.
Certain significant changes have taken
place, such as those in the Rights
Archive. The number of hours of
material released to third parties for
institutional reasons (schools,
universities, local authorities, etc.) is
rising constantly, with significant
participations by management in events
of particular importance and in
agreements with cultural institutions, like
the Indro Montanelli Foundation and the
Museo del Vittoriano.
At the Casa del Cinema in Rome, the
Teche organised the event Quando la
Rai parlava inglese, presenting 30
drama based on English literature,
broadcast at weekends from January to
May.
During the Roma Fiction Festival, the
Teche worked on the mystery stories in
TV and on the portrayal of the first
landing on the moon, 40 years later.
During the Premio Italia held in Turin,
management contributed to the
production of the documentary Torino
gira and created a 7-hour production
using materials from the archives
regarding Piedmont, which was
projected all night long at Turin's
Piccolo Regio Theatre. The Teche also
set up a photography exhibition in the
venue which hosted the Premio, entitled
Radio e TV in posa, 150 shots in Turin.
Management worked in conjunction
with Rai Cinema on the production of
the documentary film presented at the
Torino Film Festival, Come mio padre,
by Stefano Mordini.
Other important productions for
institutional purposes were the
documentaries Il paese dove sgorga il
vino, for Rai's activities in Japan (broadcast by Rai Storia) and Il
futurismo in collaboration with the Art
Quadrennial in Rome.
The research ad editorial partnership
with Rai Storia underwent extensive
development.
The European project Presto Prime was launched, with management
contributing in terms of organisation of
the database for audiovisual
broadcasting rights. Numerous
technological consultancy projects were
also launched during the year. The
Teche renewed their website in 2009 to
allow searches for materials in the
Internet database as well as Rai channel
database on Youtube.
February was the month in which Rai Eri
volume, Teche series, La prima volta del
telefono, il 3131, was presented,
accompanied by a DVD containing lots
of recordings of the history programme,
photographs and films from the
archives.