This Monday, 190 coils recorded by Ynchausti have been recovered within the project “Continuity irudiak galatuak”, as explained by project promoter Josu Martínez, in the information gathered in the medium Naiz.eus. This Euskaltzale has reported that the images he received with his camera have been transferred to the Basque Film Library in Bilbao. In the video below you can see some of these images in the assembly they have prepared to present the project.

Despite having departed from this background, “Our Lost Images” has more vocation: Collection, digitization and custody of films and videos recorded before the 1990s. These digital copies will be kept in the Basque Film Library, keeping the owners of the images the original copy and the rights to use it. They have therefore asked the citizens not to let the audiovisual materials they may have at home be lost.

It has been necessary to add many forces to implement the following project: Gastibeltza Filmak, Basque Filmoteca, Cultural Heritage of the Basque Government and the research group Nor of the UPV/EHU.

A treasure kept in Ynchausti's house

The deceased Euskaltzale in the 1960s did a great job in producing a series of documentaries: ethnographic films that gathered scenes from the traditional Basque culture. And although these works had been in the hands of the Basque Filmoteca for over 40 years, Ynchausti and many other images recorded by her relatives alone did not have the same fate: the families were hidden in the house she has in Uztaritze.

Through these images, unpublished images have been recovered from the 20th century Basque Country, as well as from foreign countries such as Shanghai, Japan, Canada, Italy, Palestine or the Spanish State. Familiar faces of Basque culture also appear, such as Xalbador, José Miguel Barandiaran, Piarres Laffite or Telesforo Monzón.