Spain’s famed Prado museum on Wednesday made its more than 400 audiovisual archives available to the public, said the museum, which is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year.
In a statement, Madrid's Prado said that its “Audiovisual memory of the Museo del Prado” archive spans 100 years of its history.
“The documentary archive brings together the audiovisual history of the Museum – its buildings and collections – for the first time through film, NODO [vintage state] news bulletins, and television,” the statement added.
Conducted in cooperation with the Filmoteca and Radio Television Espanola (RTVE), the program will start with 300 titles, including a previously unseen documentary entitled Introduction to the Museo del Prado (1985) by Basilio Martin Patino, and full-length cinema films with actors such as Rita Hayworth and Rex Harrison directed by Ramón Masats, Antonio Mercero, and Orson Welles, among others.
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