Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 338

Title

Monitoring of Television from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date(s)

1990 - 1994

Description Level

Fonds

Extent and medium (processed)

60 VHS PAL, 1.5 linear meters

Context

Archival history

The recordings were made by the Humanitarian Law Center, Belgrade, and copied by the Blinken OSA in 2003.

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

The collection consists of a variety of TV programs, including news, political talk shows, electoral campaigns, interviews and raw footage. The programs were mostly broadcast on Serbian TV stations, with a few exceptions coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina. The collection covers the period between 1990 and 1994, and includes several important landmark events: the context around the disintegration of SFR Yugoslavia, the beginning of the war in Croatia and Bosnia, the first multiparty elections in SFR Yugoslavia in 1990, parliamentary and presidential elections in Serbia in 1992 and 1993, as well as hours of raw footage on the first anti-government protest in Serbia on March 9, 1991.

Accruals

Not Expected

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

Open for research

Languages

Bosnian, Serbian

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Occasionally, VHS videocassettes are in frail condition.

Notes

Note

Arranged and processed within the Yugoslavia Archive Project.

Description Control

Archivist's note

Processed by Ana Cukovic, Perica Jovchevski and Milos Resimic, October, 2016 -June, 2017; revised by Csaba Szilagyi, September, 2017.