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The mayor of Cartagena, José López, has signed with the manager of Telecartagena, Loles Rodríguez, the collaboration agreement by which the local cable television channel cedes to the City of Cartagena its documentary file, composed of about 8,000 film tapes distributed In the formats UMATIC, BETACAM, DVCAM and VHS in which are images that are part of the recent history cartagenera from 1987. To the act have also attended the Councilor of Security and Interior, Francisco Aznar, and the general director of Interior, Cayetano Tornell, which depends on the Municipal Arcivo.

Thanks to this agreement between both entities, the Municipal Archive will take care of the original tapes that will digitize and deliver to TeleCartagena in the new format, while making them available to citizens in general for consultation or private copying;

As intellectual property rights and commercial exploitation rights will continue to belong to the television network.

The tapes collect news, interviews, gatherings and reports that portray and give an account of what the city and its people were like in the last 30 years.

The mayor said that "today is an important day for the City of Cartagena and for the Archives of the City Council and, therefore, for all Cartagena", since in his opinion this assignment is "another milestone" in the field of The historical documentation of the future of the city.

He also recalled that the city already had "the best photographic archive of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia," referring to the Cehiform, pending to return and then be able to join.

On the other hand, the first mayor wanted to thank "the work done during these 29 years" by the workers of TeleCartagena, in which they have been, as indicated, "the best public notaries of what has happened in Cartagena" and has Applauded, "above all, the gesture of making it available to all Cartagena people through its Archive."

Loles Rodríguez, manager of the local network, stated that "for TeleCartagena it is an honor that his archive is in the best hands", noting that it is the professionals of the archive who "can digitize it with propriety and knowing what has happened" in The municipality, and stressed that "the most important thing is not to lose" this living testimony that "have recorded and documented professionals who have gone through the years" by the channel.

"For us it has to be in Cartagena and it has to be in the Municipal Archive", pointed out Rodríguez.

Likewise, he expressed his satisfaction that "now all the Cartagena people will be able to enjoy it".

Francisco Aznar, whose area depends on the Municipal Archives, has ensured that this donation "will be preserved and taken care of perfectly" there and that this type of assignments are always "welcome to make the Archive ever bigger" and "that history Of Cartagena is reflected there. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena