The Institut national de l'audiovisuel (or INA, French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 for National Audiovisual Institute), is a repository of all French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 and television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 audiovisual archives. Additionally it provides customers with a free and immediate access to archives of countries such as Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

 and Cambodia

Cambodia

Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...

.http://www.ina.fr/media/television/dossier/1421/ina-images-that-speak-to-you.20090331.fr.html It has its headquarters in Bry-sur-Marne

Bry-sur-Marne

Bry-sur-Marne is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.The commune of Bry-sur-Marne is part of the sector of Porte de Paris, one of the four sectors of the "new town" of Marne-la-Vallée.-Personalities:...

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Since 2006, it has allowed free online consultation on a website called ina.fr http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous with a search tool indexing 100,000 archives of historical programs, for a total of 20,000 hours.

Recordings

In the 1980s, it issued a large number of recordings on the label France's Concert Records

France's Concert Records

France's Concert Records was a 1980s independent French jazz and blues record label that is now defunct, that was set up by Esoldun to exploit the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel 's recording archives...

. In the 1990s it launched its own label INA mémoire as the historical recording label of the Institut national de l'audiovisuel, and of the archives of Radio France

Radio France

Radio France is a French public service radio broadcaster.-Mission:Radio France's two principal missions are:* To create and expand the programming on all of their stations; and...

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Presidents

Time	Person
1975-1979	Pierre Emmanuel Pierre Emmanuel Noël Mathieu better known under his pseudonym Pierre Emmanuel, was a French poet of Christian inspiration...
1979-1981	Gabriel de Broglie Gabriel de Broglie Gabriel-Marie-Joseph-Anselme de Broglie-Revel is a French historian and statesman.He was elected to the Académie française in 2001, replacing Alain Peyrefitte. He is a Knight Commander of the Légion d'honneur...
1981-1983	Joël Le Tac
1983-1987	Jacques Pomonti
1987-1990	Janine Langlois-Glandier
1990-1994	Georges Fillioud Georges Fillioud Georges Fillioud was a French politician. He was a member of the French gouvernment in charge of mass media from 1981 to 1986, under former President François Mitterand.-Biography:...
1994-1999	Jean-Pierre Teyssier
1999-2001	Francis Beck
2001-2006	Emmanuel Hoog
2006-2010	Emmanuel Hoog
2010-present	Mathieu Gallet

External links

• INA Official website - English-language link
• Institut national de l'audiovisuel
• French radio and television archives on line (French)
• Tales of a festival : remembering Cannes in sound and picture (English and French version)
• Europe of cultures 50 years of artistic creation and cultural life from the 27 countries of the European Union (English and French version)
• L’Institut national de l’audiovisuel: Free Content and Rights Licensing as Complementary Strategies (English) A case study on the INA business model by Ithaka for the Strategic Content Alliance