Sound & Vision YouTube.
I’m currently still waiting to be linked to DAAN; the user-friendly online access to the archive of Sound & Vision. This state-of-the-art archive system forms the digital heart of the media archive. Professionals in media and science can apply for their own DAAN connection. DAAN is linked to your IP-4 address. This means I am only able to access it from one linked location.
In anticipation of being linked so I can dig throught petabytes of material and also trying to understand how the system, copyright their archive in general works I went to the Sound & Vision YouTube. They have 4000 videos on there. Here are some videos I found interesting — so far. I’m also considering how the videos are titled and what content it shows.
Also, I was wondering also how they decide what gets published on their YouTube and what doesn’t? What are the frameworks in place for that and what rules on the backend? Who decides this and how long does it take between the decision and the publishing of the material on YouTube?
Title: Radiomasten voor Wereldomroep (1968) File #: -
This is a clip about how on Bonaire (17) new signalling masts have been built in order to - as said in the video - amplify the Dutch voice in North, Middle and South America. This project was titled “Trans World Radio”. This caught my attention so I dove a little deeper into this one;
Bonaire operations of Trans World Radio in FM 89.5 MHz and AM 800 kHz.
“Trans World Radio (TWR) is a multinational evangelical Christian media distributor. The largest Christian media organization in the world, it uses high-powered mediumwave (AM) and shortwave transmitters, local FM radio stations, cable, satellite, Internet, and mobile device technologies. Currently, their programs can be heard in 190 countries in more than 200 languages and dialects. TWR started in 1952, when Paul Freed set up the organization to reach Spain by broadcasting from Morocco. Later, TWR moved to Monaco. Other major transmitting sites include Guam (KTWG), Bonaire,[1] Sri Lanka, Cyprus, and eSwatini (Swaziland). The Federal Communications Commission has assigned the call letters KTWR to the Guam transmitter site. The callsign PJB is assigned to the Bonaire station.”
Title: Toeristeneiland Curaçao File #: WEEKNUMMER 83 FHD00Z02G20
The title “Toeristeneiland Curaçao” - meaning “Tourist Island Curaçao” is quite annoying to me — also because it was one of the the first hits I got. Especially considering the the colonial history between the Netherlands and the ABCSSS islands — and the fact that it has been seen by many Dutch as ‘a paradise’, it’s easy to forget that when using these words — Curaçao is much more than just a tourist island. It’s where I was born for example, and a place where my family is from. We have a real history there.
Title: Coen Moulijn in Nederland - Curaçao (1958) File #: -
I thought this was interesting because I never knew that Curaçao played a soccer match against Feyenoord — the soccer league of the city I live in — Rotterdam. This interlinking is interesting and I discovered something.
Title: Afrikaanse muziek op jazzfestival (1979) File #: -
A clip containing Fela Kuti + Miriam Makeba, whom I both love. Title is translated to “African music on jazzfestival.” I find myself having to work through the language that is used, because I have to consider in which time the copy for the voice over was written (1979). I wonder why the titel isn’t just “Fela Kuti and Miriam Makeba op jazz festival”. Why ‘African music’ specifically? How was this descision made in terms of the title? What were the considerations? When I then searched for “Fela Kuti” – this video did pop up, which means it’s embedded in the metadata.
Title: 4e North Sea Jazz (1979) File #: -
I typed in Sun Ra and got this as a hit. This clip also includes Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock playing piano accross from each other. Sun Ra appears with his Arkestra at 2:18. The quality is extremely pixalated and poor and I am wondering if there is a better recording of this.
Title: Folksfestival in Rotterdam (1980) File #: -
I searched for ‘Miles Davis’, and this is the first hit I got at the top of my list. Miles Davis does not appear in this clip at all. I wonder what metadata is connected to this + why.
Connective material
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25-004Text, Video
07-02-2025