INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF KAZAKHSTAN AND GERMANY IN FILM AND PHOTO DOCUMENTS (THE SOVIET PERIOD)

Abstract

Abstract. The modern period of the formation and development of historical knowledge is characterized by a
gradual increase in the number of film-, photo- and audible documents created (as known as audiovisual documents).
To a certain extent, based on the scope and scale of the events recorded by the public and private life, it can be
stated that this kind of historical sources becomes widespread. Therefore, there is a natural need to enrich and expand
scientific and scientific-methodological concepts of film-, photo-, audible documents as archival storage facilities and
historical sources. In them, as well as on traditional information carriers, the history of society is reflected and they
become available for political, social, economic, cultural and other historical research. Information and cognitive
properties of visual and sound sources containing historical information are obvious. They act as unique means of
comprehension of reality thanks to which it is possible to receive visual and figurative (film- and photo-documents)
and sound (phono- (audible) documents) idea of real events. One of the specific sources of studying of national history
are the film photophonodocuments which are formed in activity of the specialized and other institutions which are
actively creating this type of documents. They carry audiovisual information on socio-political, economic, cultural life
of society.
The study of the history of the newest period is impossible without the involvement of audiovisual documents,
although they actually remain not in demand and not implemented in practice as a source of historical research. Like
other types of historical sources, they remain relevant and important as a means of preserving social memory. The value
of audiovisual information for the formation of a social memory history today is an indisputable fact. In the modern
world, the information capabilities of audiovisual sources, their ability to act as a unique means of comprehending
reality, through which one can get a visual and imaginative representation of facts and events of real life, as well as
solve the traditional problems of scientific knowledge, are actualized.