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> Anglia Television at the East Anglian Film Archive
>
> The School of Film and Television Studies at the University of East
> Anglia,
> and the East Anglian Film Archive, which is part of the School, has
> received a Resource Enhancement grant worth £412,910 from the Arts and
> Humanities Research Council (AHRC), to catalogue its important
> collection
> of ITV Anglia programmes and news film dating from 1959.
>
> The collection comprises some 20,000 cans of film and 8,000 videotapes
> produced by Anglia Television between 1959 and 2000, including news
> film,
> documentaries, current affairs, lifestyle programming and a small
> amount of
> drama. It is potentially of great interest to academic researchers
> both for
> the insights it offers into regional television history and for the
> materials it offers to other disciplines such as history,
> geography, design
> and journalism. The catalogue should make the collection far more
> accessible to users. Towards the end of this 18 month project, a
> research
> symposium will be held to help draw attention to the academic
> potential of
> the collection and to situate it in the context of the history of
> British
> television.
>
> This is part of a much larger cataloguing and digitisation
> programme at the
> East Anglian Film Archive, for which fund-raising is on-going, and
> one of
> the purposes of the award is to identify conservation requirements
> for the
> collection and to prioritise material for digitisation. The key
> outcome
> will of course be the catalogue itself, but we will also be recording
> interviews with current and former Anglia staff, adding their personal
> memories of the production of many of the programmes, and enhancing
> our
> knowledge of changing industry practices over half a century; the
> cataloguers will also be able to draw on valuable contextual
> information,
> such as our collection of the Eastern edition of the TV Times
> dating from
> 1959.
>
> ITV Anglia Managing Director Neil Thompson said of the award: “We are
> delighted that the fascinating history of commercial television in the
> region is not only being expertly preserved at the Archive but will
> be made
> more accessible to the people of the region, and beyond, with this
> comprehensive cataloguing project. We look forward to digital
> technology
> making more of this rich source of cultural history widely available”.
>
> For further details about the project, please contact Professor Andrew
> Higson, Head of the School of Film and Television Studies
> ([log in to unmask]), or Richard Taylor, Director of the East
> Anglian Film
> Archive ([log in to unmask]).
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