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Pathe Resources
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Regional Digital and Media Archives  A wealth of material with centres all over Britain.
NB: Most of this material is not, unlike The British Pathe Archive, digitised, and when it is its often streamed or for showing only. Require different Media Players |
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The Bill Douglas Centre, University of Exeter
http://www.ex.ac.uk/bill.douglas/ Founded in 1994, the Centre contains an enormous collection relating to the history of film and visual media. From shadow puppets to Shirley Temple dolls, from magic lanterns to Marilyn Monroe postcards. Hove Museum & Art Gallery http://www.hove.virtualmuseum.info/ For early film-making in the South East The National Fairground Archive at the University of Sheffield http://www.shef.ac.uk/nfa/ The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum http://www.nidex.com/uftm/index.htm Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission http://www.nifc.co.uk/ National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/archives/wa/collection.html http://screenandsound.llgc.org.uk/cronfa/main.html Scottish Screen Archive http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/archives/ss/collection.html http://www.scottishscreen.com/archivelive http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/ East Anglian Film Archive http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/archives/ea/collection.html http://www.uea.ac.uk/eafa/ca.html Media Archive for Central England http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/archives/ce/collection.html North West Film Archive http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/archives/nw/collection.html North West Sound Archives http://www.ribblevalley.gov.uk/static/page50.htm Northern Region Filmand Televison Archive http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/archives/nr/collection.html South East Film and Video Archive http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/archives/se/collection.html South West Film and Televison Archive http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/archives/sw/collection.html Wessex Film and Sound Archive http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/archives/wx/collection.html http://www.hants.gov.uk/record-office/catalog/index.html Yorkshire Film Archive http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/archives/ya/collection.html |
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The North West Film Archive http://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/
The North West Film Archive is a part of the Library Service of the Manchester Metropolitan University. It is Britain's largest public collection outside London. The Archive was set up in 1977 and is the professionally recognised home for moving images made in or about Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire. The region's position at the forefront of industrialisation is reflected in the Archive's Collection which is a powerful record of modern urban society. |
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Moving History www.movinghistory.ac.uk
Moving History is an online guide to the UK's public sector moving image archives, designed to encourage the use of such archives for scholarly research. It has been produced for the AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies by the South East Film & Video Archive. The site contains 100 film clips, arranged by archive or by theme, in-depth descriptions of the archives, and guidelines for researchers. The themes include Arts and Culture, Coastal and Waterways, Drama and Entertainment, Family Life, Gender and Cultural Diversity, Industry, Leisure, Rural Life and Urban Life. The clips are available in high, medium and low bit rates, and require Windows Media Player. |
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Bristol Silents www.bristolsilents.org.uk
Website dedicated to UK silent films - screens them in Bristol. |
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Sound Archives Nation on Film - England
www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm The BBC television series Nation on Film, which includes material from Film Archive Forum members, has a complementary website. This includes a wide range of streamed video clips from the North East Film and Television Archive, South West Film and Television Archive, North West Film Archive and East Anglian Film Archive. Films from other Forum members archives will be added to the series in 2004. Requires RealPlayer. Scotland on Film www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/scotlandonfilm The large number of archive audio and video clips included here are from the holdings of the Scottish Screen Archive, and are organised by location, subject and in alphabetical order. The themes illustrated include Home Life, Childhood & Schooldays, Work, Health and others, all of which can be discussed on a series of linked discussion forums. Requires RealPlayer. English Dialects http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/ British Library Sound Collection |
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