The article brings a systematic survey of audio-visual recordings of all types about the upper part of the Bača valley. The author has included films shown publicly, televised programs and short contributions as well a recordings which were purpose-made within ethnological institutions and in the framework of the three Alpine Research Camps in Podbrdo and its environs. The survey also includes film, video and photographic material, shot by people in the field, who keep this material. In the final part the author evaluates the significance of the three sets of visual recordings (public, semi-public and private) for the local community, the general public and ethnology.