The arrival of tourism ended the deficit in services and also the structural problems that it had in the south of Gran Canaria. The Cabildo of Gran Canaria, for more than a decade, has been recovering the island's endangered audiovisual memory. People interested in participating in the campaign must leave their films at the Maspalomas Cultural Center. A specialized team will be in charge of digitizing and rescuing the material and subsequently returning the originals and a copy to their owners.
The technicians understand that the dissemination of these audiovisual documents is not only a palpable way of preserving the audiovisual memory of Gran Canaria, but that with them they can verify the social, urban, cultural, landscape and economic transformation that the island has experienced with the passage of recent decades. As Gabriel Betancor, Audiovisual Funds technician at the FEDAC of the Cabildo, explains, “audiovisual documents, all of them with a high historical and ethnographic value because they reveal to us what our society has been like and give us the keys to understand what it is like today.” In this case The campaign will travel through the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana. It must be remembered that private audiovisual documents such as films, radio and television programs, sound and video recordings, contain a good part of the main records of the memory of the Canary Islands during the 20th and 21st centuries. These materials, however familiar they may be, constitute a first-rate document for identifying a multitude of aspects of our recent history.
The Audiovisual Culture Center of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria has been coordinating the campaign called 'Share your memories' for some time, aimed at people interested in rescuing and transferring their audiovisual recordings shot in 8 mm, Super 8 mm or 16 mm format, and who wish to contribute thus to the recovery of the audiovisual heritage of Gran Canaria.