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Moving History
The AHRB Centre for British Film and Television studies and the
South East Film and Video Archive are delighted to announce the
launch of Moving History - a new web resource on film archives aimed
at the arts and humanities academic community.
http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk

This new site provides an in depth guide to the United Kingdom’s
twelve public sector moving image archives, presenting detailed
information on these fascinating and valuable collections, and
illustrated with over 100 selected film and television clips. The site
also offers guidelines on gaining access to these archives, and
provides links and contact points for further information.

The guide aims to encourage scholarly research into archive film and
to promote the value of these resources to all academics and
students across the arts and humanities in higher education. More
widely, it is hoped that the information found here will be of interest to
all researchers who seek to expand their understanding and use of
moving image material.

The site contains:
* Over 100 selected film clips from the collections of the nations public
sector moving image archives, browsable by theme and by archive,
with descriptive and contextual information alongside each clip,
outlining the film and its place in the archive collections
* Detailed portraits of the twelve public sector moving image archive
collections. Each describe the places, time periods, subjects, and
production types covered in the archive collections along with
highlighted examples of films from the archives
* Procedures for access to the collections for academic users,
information on archive facilities and services and details of academic
partnerships and projects
* Guidance on understanding the archive collections, case studies of
academic researchers using film archive collections in their work, and
links to related organisations and collections for further study

The UK's twelve public sector moving image archives are:
The National collections of:
bfi National Film and Television Archive
Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive
National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
Scottish Screen Archive

The English regional collections of:
East Anglian Film Archive
Media Archive for Central England
North West Film Archive
Northern Region Film and Television Archive
South East Film and Video Archive
The South West Film & Television Archive
Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Yorkshire Film Archive

The Moving History web site is a major outcome of a two year project,
led by the South East Film and Video Archive at the University of
Brighton, and is one of several strands of research initiated by the
AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies. The Moving
History web site can be found at:
http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk

Details of the two year project culminating in the development of the
Moving History web site and other outputs can be found at the Centre's
web site:
www.bftv.ac.uk/projects/sefva.htm

Research Team:
Frank Gray (Director, South East Film and Video Archive)
Elaine Sheppard (Junior Research Fellow)
South East Film and Video Archive
University of Brighton
www.brighton.ac.uk/sefva/

AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies
Hosted by Birkbeck, University of London, the AHRB Centre for British
Film and Television Studies is a partnership between Birkbeck,
University of London; University of Brighton – South East Film and
Video Archive; Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, The
London Institute; University of Exeter – Bill Douglas Centre; the Royal
College of Art; Sheffield Hallam University; University of Ulster and the
British Film Institute. Created in October 2000, the Centre is funded by
the Arts and Humanities Research Board for five years under the
AHRB Research Centres Scheme. Further information about the
AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies and its projects
and partners is at: www.bftv.ac.uk

AHRB
The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) funds postgraduate
and advanced research within the UK's higher education institutions
and provides funding for museums, galleries and collections that are
based in, or attached to, HEIs within England. The AHRB supports
research within a huge subject domain - from traditional humanities
subjects, such as history, modern languages and English literature, to
music and the creative and performing arts. The AHRB makes awards
on the basis of academic excellence and is not responsible for the
views or research outcomes expressed by its award holders.