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Preservation and Digitization (Negatives) of the audiovisual work filmed by Camilo Correa on April 9, 1948
The fundamental achievement of this project is the finding of 36 min. 21 sec of ORIGINAL moving images, contained in cellulose nitrate support, image negatives in 35 mm format, of the historical events that occurred during and after April 9, 1948, filmed by Camilo Correa and Charles Riou for the Noticiero Colombia de the Procinal company, which are of great importance due to their historical, social and cultural value.
Another most important achievement obtained with the execution of the scholarship is having carried out the digitization, due to the risk of physical deterioration and loss of information due to being supported on cellulose nitrate film, a highly combustible support, and with it the preservation of that evidence. that constitute part of the memory of the country.
For the above reasons, these film records are, due to their extrinsic and intrinsic nature and the values mentioned, testimonies that are part of the documentary heritage of the nation and can be included in the list of Assets of Cultural Interest.
Title: “APRIL 1948”
Subtitle: “Events in Bogotá”
Direction, editing: Camilo Correa Restrepo
Camera: Camilo Correa and Charles Riou
Production: Procine
Year of production: 1948
Country: Colombia
Content:
Content: Filming of the fire at the facilities of the newspapers "El Siglo", "El Tiempo", "Semana", the fire at the San Carlos building, the attack on the Capitol and other buildings in the sector, looting of warehouses, combats on the seventh and Jiménez , groups of rioters, fires at night and in later days corpses in the streets and in the cemetery, combat with snipers, ruins of buildings, removal of rubble by citizens, benefactors of city reconstruction companies (Bavaria, others)
Descriptors:
COLOMBIA; BOGOTA; BOGOTAZO; JORGE ELIECER GAITAN; CAMILO BELT; PROCINAL; COLOMBIA NEWS; SOCIAL LIFE, ARCHITECTURE, NEWS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; YEARS 40.