Launch Event for the £247,000 Investment Programme in London’s Screen Heritage
6 May 2010 at 4pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1
Film London and London’s Screen Archives: the regional network have been successful in securing £247,000 from the UK Screen Heritage programme for an 18-month project to care for and make accessible key elements of London’s moving image history. The project will enable delivery of an expanded inventory of London’s holdings, descriptive cataloguing information for key titles, a central storage solution for fragile film and video, a collections’ care toolkit and digital access copies of around 20 hours of ‘unseen’ material. This work will also link into an exciting project to create a union catalogue of all moving image archive material in the UK and an online showcase for some of the nation’s film archive treasures.
The funding forms part of a £25 million investment in the UK’s Screen Heritage by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It allows London to play its part in an extensive national programme to increase access to national and regional moving image heritage and support the organisations that create this access.
At the launch event for London’s funding programme on 6 May, a brief presentation about the national and regional investment programmes will be followed by an opportunity to ask questions and a glass of wine or soft drink to celebrate the establishment of the London’s Screen Archives YouTube site.
If you would like to attend the launch, please contact [log in to unmask]
Rebekah Polding
London Screen Heritage Manager
On behalf of London’s Screen Archives: the regional network
www.filmlondon.org.uk/screenarchives
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