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BBC Motion Gallery
BBC Motion Gallery is the BBC's agent for licensing all footage from its vast archive, with over 50,000 clips online for customers to search and download at bbcmotiongallery.com. To complement the core collection, BBC Motion Gallery is also the exclusive representative of the CBS News Archive and China Central Television.
www.bbcmotiongallery.com
BFI National Archive
The British Film Institute (BFI) is responsible for the UK's National Film and Television Archive. It also has extensive libraries of books, films, videos, stills and posters - this site explains how to access the material.
+44 (0)20 7255 1444
www.bfi.org.uk/nftva
British Pathe Film Archive
The world's first digital news archive. British Pathe have re-catalogued and encoded their entire 3,500 hour film archive which covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970. You can also license higher resolution copies of the same items for PowerPoint presentations and web publishing. All content is free of charge for use by UK Maintained Schools in the classroom.
+44 (0)207 430 4480
www.britishpathe.com
East Anglian Film Archive
This is the moving image archive for counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
+44 (0)1603 592 664
eafa@uea.ac.uk
www.uea.ac.uk/eafa
Film and Video Archive at the Imperial War Museum
Online access to over 23,000 Film and Video Archive catalogue records. A large proportion of material has been transferred to the Museum from the Services and other public bodies as the Archive is the official repository for such public record films.
Non Commercial:
T + 44 (0)20 7416 5294/3
film@iwm.org.uk
Commercial:
T +44 (0)20 7416 5291/2
filmcommercial@iwm.org.uk
www.iwmcollections.org.uk/qryFilm.asp
Focal
The Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries offers a free service finding experienced archive/film researchers to assist producers, which will probably cut down on litigation later.
info@focalint.org
www.focalint.org
Images of Empire
The commercial wing of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Images of Empire is an archive showing Britain's role in re-shaping and changing the world we live in.
www.imagesofempire.com
ITN Source
ITN Source is the world’s leading provider of motion picture archive material, featuring over 800,000 hours of iconic film and inspiring stock footage captured over three centuries.
T +44 (0) 207 430 4480
uksales@itnsource.com
www.itnsource.com
Media Archive For Central England
The Media Archive for Central England is the public sector moving image archive for the East and West Midlands.
T +44(0) 116 252 5066
macearchive@le.ac.uk
www.macearchive.org
National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
The National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales is responsible for safeguarding and celebrating Wales' rich audio-visual heritage. The collection comprises of over 5.5m feet of film, 250,000 hours of video, over 200,000 hours of sound recordings and thousands of tapes, records and compact discs.
+44 (0) 1970 632 828
agssc@llgc.org.uk
screenandsound.llgc.org.uk
Northern Regional Film and Television Archive (NRFTA)
The Northern Region Film and Television Archive (NRFTA) was founded in 1998. They are the public-sector moving image archive serving County Durham, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tees Valley and Tyne and Wear.
+44 (0)1642 384022
enquiries@nrfta.org.uk
www.nrfta.org.uk
North West Film Archive
North West Film Archive is the professionally recognised public home for the moving image heritage of the North West of England. The online catalogue contains over 5,000 titles from the North West Film Archive's moving image collection.
T+44 (0) 161 247 3097
n.w.filmarchive@mmu.ac.uk
www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk
Scottish Screen Archive
Founded in 1976, the main purpose of the Archive is to locate, preserve and provide access to moving images reflecting Scottish culture and history. In addition the Archive collects written and photographic materials relating to the development of cinema exhibition and film production in Scotland since the 1890s.
+ 44 (0) 141 880 2300
ssaenquiries@nls.uk
ssa.nls.uk
Screen Archive South East
Founded in 1992, Screen Archive South East serves the South East of England. The function of this regional screen archive is to locate, collect, preserve, provide access to and promote screen material related to the South East and of general relevance to screen history.
T +44 (0)1273 643 213
screenarchive@brighton.ac.uk
www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive
Screenonline
This British Film Institute website brings to life the history of British film and television, with hundreds of hours of digitised video alongside thousands of stills, posters, production designs, press and publicity materials, unpublished scripts, personal papers, recorded interviews with filmmakers and actors, and interactive timelines.
www.screenonline.org.uk/feedback.html
www.screenonline.org.uk
The Showcase
The world's first streaming archive of community media. A multimedia website of radio programmes, sound recordings, TV, film and video, internet projects and learning materials from the community media sector.
Funded by the New Opportunities Fund and the European Union Social Fund community Initiative EQUAL Programme, this databased website allows users to search and access archived materials. It is aimed at those with low bandwidth as well as broadband, and will therefore allow everyone to stream or download material from anywhere in the world. The archive is non-profit and free. There is no charge for programmes or training materials to be re-used for non-commercial purposes. Their aim is to open up these rich resources to new audiences.
T+ 44 (0)114 279 5219
showcase.commedia.org.uk
South West Film and Television Archive
The South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA) is a registered charity dedicated to the finding, keeping and sharing of the region’s unique moving image heritage. It is currently the largest of the Regional Archives.
T +44 (0)1752 202650
info@swfta.org.uk
www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=20771
Wessex Film and Sound Archive
The Wessex Film and Sound Archive has records of visual and aural history, from late Victorian times to the present day. The Archive contains over 32,000 film and sound recordings relating to central southern England, including film and tapes of local TV and radio, now available to study and enjoy. The Archive also has a 85 seat cinema for group viewing and listening.
T +44 (0)1962 846 154
enquiries.wfsa@hants.gov.uk
www.hants.gov.uk/wfsa.htm
Yorkshire Film Archive
The Yorkshire Film Archive is the public access film archive for Yorkshire and the Humber. They hold over 14,000 items of film and video tape, dating from the earliest days of film making in the 1880s to the present day.
T +44 (0)1904 876 550
yfa@yorksj.ac.uk
www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com
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