News
February 2012
'Movies and Memories' Project Announced
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Screen Archive South East Heritage Project awarded over £42,000
Screen Archive South East, will lead a year-long oral history and reminiscence project along the West Sussex coast, with funding of more than £42,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Discovering the region’s seaside towns on film
The project, showcasing the history of West Sussex seaside towns, will screen locally-made films of everyday life in West Sussex dating from the 1930s to the 1960s. The films include; home movies, local newsreels and cine society films, many of which have never been made available to the public before.
Starting in the Summer, the project will allow residents from Worthing, Littlehampton, Bognor Regis and Shoreham-by-Sea to see the films and share their memories of the county.
Through the project, a series of reminiscence sessions will be held across the county to record the memories of elderly groups by using Screen Archive South East's film collection as a catalyst.
A DVD combining the newly uncovered histories and memories with archive films will be created as part of the project and shared with community groups, local schools and libraries across West Sussex.
Lionel Barnard, West Sussex County Council Deputy Leader who oversees the West Sussex Record Office, where the films are stored and preserved, said: “This project will preserve the memories of those strongly connected with our county so they can be shared with future generations for years to come.
“This is a great opportunity to open the history books with old footage that has never been made available to the public until now.”
To find out more about the project, email the South East Screen Archive on: screenarchive@brighton.ac.uk or call: 01273 643213
September 2011
Screen Heritage UK & Screen Archive South East present:
DISCOVER BRIGHTON ON FILM!
ON 7 SEPTEMBER
Have an archive adventure on board the Vintage Mobile Cinema
Wednesday 7th September 2011
Jubilee Square, Brighton
(opposite the Jubilee Library)
To celebrate the launch of the Screen Heritage UK programme and the BBC’s Reel
History of Britain television series, Screen Archive South East welcomes everyone to visit the Vintage Mobile Cinema and see Discover Brighton on Film!
Continuous programme
from 12 noon to 6 pm,
Each film programme
will last 15 minutes.
Plus special screenings hosted by Dr Frank Gray of Screen Archive South East at 3pm and 5pm.
This is the Vintage Mobile Cinema’s first trip to Brighton. In 1967, when the ‘white heat’ of Harold Wilson’s scientific revolution was at its hottest, the then Minister of Technology Tony Benn commissioned seven mobile cinemas to tour British factories to promote modern production methods. After a few years service, this fleet of customised Bedfords was sold off and by 2003 the only known survivor was found rusting in a field in Essex. Vintage vehicle enthusiast Ollie Halls and Emma Giffard took on the task of reviving the vehicle and returning it as close as possible to its original 1960s condition. The Vintage Mobile Cinema is now touring the UK to launch the Screen Heritage UK programme.
Screen Archive South East is inviting everyone to come on-board the mobile cinema to:
· See newly preserved and digitised films of Brighton in the past
· Learn about the importance of preserving and sharing the nation’s screen heritage
· Meet the film archivists – the guardians of these important public collections
“Archive film is a very important part of our national heritage. It serves as our time machine. It takes us to the past and we see and feel memories connecting with history!” Frank Gray, Director Screen Archive South East
The Screen Heritage UK programme has worked over a number of years to preserve and digitise the nation’s screen heritage. The films to be screened in the Vintage Mobile Cinema have all benefited from this programme. Screen Heritage UK has also created an online search engine – Search Your Film Archives. Joining forces as never before, the national and regional film archives have created this new resource to give us all access to information about film archive collections across the UK.
Screen Heritage UK
The Screen Heritage UK Programme is a Partnership between the British Film Institute, Screen Yorkshire and English regional film archives, to safeguard the future of the UK's national and regional film archives, funded by Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Contact details:
For more details and/or images on the Discover Brighton on Film! event please contact Sara Duffy at info@cine-city.co.uk
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September 2011
NEW NATIONAL FILM ARCHIVE RESOURCE LAUNCHED ON 5 SEPTEMBER
The Screen Heritage UK programme has worked since 2009 to preserve and digitise the nation’s screen heritage. Over the last year, this programme has invested over £175,000 in the cataloguing and digitising of key films in the Screen Archive South East collection. Screen Heritage UK has also created an online search engine – Search Your Film Archives. Joining forces as never before, the national and regional film archives have created this new resource to give us all access to information about film archive collections across the UK. It means that everyone in Britain will be able to access their film heritage for free from wherever they live or wherever the material is held via an exciting new online facility. Screen Archive South East is very proud to be part of this new national resource.
The Screen Heritage UK Programme is a Partnership between the British Film Institute, Screen Yorkshire and the English regional film archives, to safeguard the future of the UK's national and regional film archives, funded by Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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September 2011
SCREEN ARCHIVE FILMS SELECTED FOR NEW BBC SERIES - STARTING ON 5 SEPTEMBER
The Reel History of Britain is a major BFI/BBC co-production coinciding with the completion of the Screen Heritage UK project. The series reveals some of the fascinating stories and individuals behind key archive films from the BFI and national and regional film archives. Films from Screen Archive South East feature in the programmes devoted to the Home Guard and rural life in Kent. The series is presented in 20 episodes by broadcaster and historian Melvyn Bragg and is launched on 5th September 2011 on BBC Two.
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August 2011
LAUNCH OF FILM ARCHIVES UK
In Autumn 2011 the 'Film Archive Forum' is being re-launched as Film Archives UK. Established in 1987, Film Archives UK represents the UK's public sector film and television archives. These archives care for the moving image heritage of the nation, collecting, preserving and providing access to screen history from the birth of film to the present day. Film Archives UK’s new website will be managed by Screen Archive South East and is currently being developed. Please visit the former Film Archive Forum website and the Moving History site to find out more about the archives and the films in their collections.
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May 2011
Medway on Screen on the News
A news item has been broadcast by ITV Meridian, to celebrate the end of Medway on Screen - Screen Archive South East's Heritage Lottery Funded project. The report featured interviews with Screen Archive South East's Director Frank Gray and Christine Furminger of the City of Rochester Society. The report also includes film of the Medway from the archive's collection and oral history recordings from the project's DVD. The item can be viewed online on the ITV News website.
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April 2011
Medway on Screen DVD Launch
Screen Archive South East have launched a new DVD "Medway on Screen: Memories of the River Medway and West Kent". The two-disc DVD features highlights from a year-long community history project run by SASE in 2010. The Medway on Screen project collected a fascinating array of oral history interviews and information relating to the community history of the River Medway in the twentieth century.
Disc one features highlights from the oral history recordings edited with archive film material of the Medway and West Kent from the collection at Screen Archive South East. These include memories of hop-picking, the Venetian Fete at Tonbridge, the annual carnival procession at Maidstone, rides on the ‘Medway Queen’ paddle steamer and working life at Shorts Brothers factory in Rochester. Disc one also features information about the project and the community events that took place in Tonbridge, Maidstone, Rochester and the Medway Towns.
Disc two features seven full-length archive films from the collection at Screen Archive South East, which were used as the catalyst for the project. The films date from the 1930s and 1940s, and several feature an introduction based on local history research carried out during the project. The films include ‘Watery Trail’ (1938) which takes us on a journey down the River Medway from source to sea and ‘In the Hop Fields of Kent’ (1930), which charts a year in the life of a Kent hop garden.
This DVD was produced by Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton. The Medway on Screen project was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and supported by the Centre for Kentish Studies, Medway Archives & Local Studies Centre and Tonbridge Library.
The Medway on Screen DVD is available to view at the Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone Reference Library, Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre and Tonbridge Library.
To purchase a copy of the DVD contact Screen Archive South East on: 01273 643213 or email: screenarchive@brighton.ac.uk
Running time:
Disc one – 1 hour,
Disc two – 2 hours
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December 2010
Colour exhibition opens at Brighton Museum
Still from the Kinemacolor film,
“Two Clowns” (1906),
dir. G. A. Smith
(British Film Institute / Screen Archive South East)
'Capturing Colour: Film, Invention and Wonder' runs from 4 December 2010 to 20 March 2011 at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. Admission is free.
'Capturing Colour' is the first exhibition to tell the international story of colour film - from hand-colouring through to the digital image. It focuses on the colour moving image in Britain from its origins in magic lanterns, early colour photography and Kromskops, to applied colour films, Kinemacolor, Technicolor and Kodachrome. Fantasy worlds, the wonders of the nature, cinema blockbusters and home movies all illustrate the stories of the quest for colour. An exploration of Brighton and Hove's role as the birthplace of Kinemacolor is of special interest. Films are viewable on 20 screens throughout the galleries.
For the exhibition, Screen Archive South East's research led to the digital re-construction of several 100 year-old Kinemacolor films -- restoring colour to rare surviving black & white 35mm prints, and showing them for the first time to modern audiences.
Exhibition highlights include film posters, treasures of the early cinema like George Albert Smith's 'The Two Clowns', an extract from 'The Red Shoes' in glorious Technicolor, along with the cameras and projectors used to make and show colour films throughout the 20th century. The curator is SASE director Dr. Frank Gray.
For more information, visit the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery or contact SASE.
Capturing Colour is a collaboration between the Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove and Screen Archive South East. It is funded by Renaissance South East, Screen South and UK Film Council’s Digital Film Archive Fund supported by the National Lottery, University of Brighton and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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March 2010
Medway on Screen project launched
Screen Archive South East, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, is leading an exciting new community history project on the River Medway in the twentieth century. The project aims to use archive film to discover the many stories and histories of the Medway and West Kent, gathering memories, historical information, photographs and other related documents.
Community events will take place throughout the year in Maidstone, Rochester and Tonbridge, where project staff and volunteers will work with participants to gather this information.
All of this rich material will be combined to create a multi-layered impression of 20th century life along the River Medway. A project website and DVD will provide a valuable new resource and preserve the project’s findings.
For more details, visit the Medway on Screen web pages for updates or contact Project Manager Catherine Walsh, email: c.walsh2@brighton.ac.uk
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December 2009
New ‘Screen Search Fashion’ website launched
A new website featuring fashion on film in the 1920s and 1930s is being launched this week. Screen Search Fashion has been developed by Screen Archive South East, at the University of Brighton, in partnership with the RCA funded by the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design (CETLD).
This free online resource offers a new way of looking at everyday fashion and dress history in the inter-war years through unique archive film held in Screen Archive South East’s (SASE) collections. The site provides a thematic guide to aspects of 1920s and 1930s fashion, as depicted in over two hundred newly digitized stills and clips, enabling the researcher to discover key aspects of fashion and dress of the period in their historical and design contexts. The site includes links to records in Screen Archive South East’s online database, where the films can be explored in further detail. The site also includes links to related resources held in archives, libraries and museums; a bibliography of related literature and a glossary of terms.
This new online teaching and learning resource is accessible to all, enabling material which has hitherto been underused for fashion research and study, to be opened up to a wider audience. The vast potential of non-fiction film as a resource for students interested in fashion and dress is highlighted by this resource which has the potential to contribute to dress historians’ developing interest in everyday fashions.
This resource is the result of a year long, CETLD-funded project, carried out at the Royal College of Art and Screen Archive South East, at the University of Brighton.
Project Team: Dr Rebecca Arnold (Courtauld Institute of Art), Carly Eck (RCA/V&A), Hannah Kauffman (National Portrait Gallery), and Dr Frank Gray, Elaine Sheppard, Ine Van Dooren (all Screen Archive South East, University of Brighton).
Screen Search Fashion can be visited at: www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive/fashion/
For further information about the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design. visit: cetld.brighton.ac.uk/
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Spring 2009
A 'Fashion on Screen' study day is to be held on the 21 May 2009 at the V&A Museum.
The Screen Study Day brings together fashion historians and film archivists to explore documentary and amateur film’s potential as an exciting source for researching clothing and fashion. Non-fiction film provides a rich, and largely untapped resource that enables us to see fashion as it was worn, and how it was worn. Seeing clothing in motion can alter our understanding of the way garments work on the body, and enhance our insight into the wide range of styles worn within a given period. This study day aims to encourage students and tutors to use non-fiction film in their own work, and to appreciate the ways it can develop our knowledge of everyday fashions.
This Study Day has been organised as part of the CETLD-funded Screen Search Fashion collaborative project at the Royal College of Art and Screen Archive South East at University of Brighton.
Download a copy of the study day programme: studyday.doc
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Spring 2009
Visual Practice Project
Screen Archive South East is working with the the University of Brighton's School of Education and Brighton's Varndean College to explore creativity and visual practice. The work looks at how archive film might be used in different academic disciplines to develop students' creative and critical skills through editing, changing and using archive film in new ways. This project follows on from a pilot project run last year and uses the University's 'Community' website to make the films accessible for students to 'download', edit and 'upload' their own creatively re-purposed films. As part of the the project, the archive recently worked with the School of Education to run a session for the students studying Creativity and Digital Media Technologies. The project is part funded through LearnHigher Visual Practices.
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26-02-2009
In the Papers...
Films from the Home Front was featured today in the Times Newspaper's Daily Universal Register section, page 31.
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11-12-2008
Screen Archive South East in association with West Sussex Record Office has released a DVD of rare film footage of Sussex.
The DVD offers a unique insight into the life and work of the people of the South East from late Victorian times to the present day, all through the camera lenses of local film-makers. Their cameras captured the spirit of the times from the packed bank holiday beaches of Bognor to the tranquil rural scenes of trug-making and sheep shearing in the downland countryside.
In Chichester the local Cine Club filmed the enthusiastic celebrations of the Silver Jubilee of George V and Queen Mary in 1935. Colour footage after the war includes a travelogue featuring the beauty spots of West and East Sussex in 1946 and another promotional film of Brighton in the 1950s.
B/W and colour footage, Running time 1hr 13 minutes Price: £16.50
The DVD is available for purchase, from the West Sussex Record Office, major libraries in West Sussex and on-line from the WSCC e shop.
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11-12-2008
Rural Life - Kent on Film DVD Volume Two Launched
Featuring rare moving images of Kent from the 1930s, Volume Two in our DVD series, ‘Kent on Film’, presents remarkable films of rural Kent from the film collections held by Screen Archive South East.
The films present many different aspects of rural Kentish communities at work and play during the 1930s. They include scenes drawn from the agricultural year including ploughing, planting, the preparation of a traditional hop garden, harvesting and tree felling. Particular activities include fruit and hop picking, the harvesting of wheat and the annual Egerton May Fair. The DVD concludes with the film Country Rhapsody, a cine-poem dedicated to the beauty of the rural world.
All of the films in this collection have been preserved, digitised and documented by Screen Archive South East for use both now and in the future.
The DVD was produced by the Kent Archives Service and Screen Archive South East. We thank all of our donors and depositors for making the production of this DVD possible.
Running time: 66 minutes
Price: £12.99
The DVD is available at all Kent libraries and archive centres. Currently you can buy both Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Kent on Film for £20.00. For more information email Paula Manklow on paula.manklow@kent.gov.uk or call 01622 694461
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14-07-2008
A
new website featuring events and activities run at Whitehawk Primary School
in Brighton on life in the Second World War on the home front is being
launched this week. Screen Archive South East, at the University of Brighton,
in partnership with Whitehawk Primary School, have built the site as part
of the Big Lottery Fund’s Their Past Your Future (TPYF2) programme.
Over the course of four days in May 2008 children from the school engaged in a number of learning activities aimed at encouraging young people to develop an understanding of the conflict’s significance to their local area. Activities at the school included meeting and interviewing 'home front veterans' - local residents who had been at school during the Second World War, touring the school's World War Two air raid shelter, watching and producing commentaries for a World War Two film from Screen Archive South East, performing drama activities, creating art work and writing articles and poetry.
The
site, ‘Whitehawk
Primary School on the Home Front’, offers free public access
to the many outputs from these events, including over 20 video clips showing
the children's activities and outputs.
'Whitehawk Primary School on the Home Front’ is a companion site
to 'Films from the Home Front' which features archive films illustrating
life on the home front in Britain during the Second World War. Both are
part of the wider ‘Moving History’ website which presents
other films from UK archives on all subjects and aspects of film history
across the twentieth century.
The events held at Whitehawk Primary School provided a unique opportunity for the pupils to enrich their learning about the Second World War by meeting former pupils who were at the school during the war, by viewing archive film of a local school air raid drill and by understanding the history of the school's own shelter.
This project was enabled through funding from the 'Their Past Your Future 2' Grant Programme. which aims to emphasise intergenerational learning around the theme of learning from past conflicts. This funding is distributed and administered by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
Visit the site at:
www.movinghistory.ac.uk/whitehawkhomefront
For further information about the funding programme:
www.mla.gov.uk/website/programmes/their_past_your_future
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23-01-2007
Screen Archive South East and 'Their Past Your Future 2'
Screen Archive South East is pleased to announce that it has been awarded funding from the 'Their Past Your Future 2' Grant Programme. This project will join 28 other successfully funded projects across England which emphasise intergenerational learning around the theme of Learning from past conflicts.
The Screen Archive South East project, will work in partnership with children from Whitehawk Primary School in Brighton to explore the relevance of the Second World War. Using film archive material, the project will encourage young people to develop an understanding of the conflict’s significance to their local area. The children will work with the archive films, the school's own on-site World War Two air raid shelter and with local 'home front' veterans.
Using the children’s creative outputs from these activities, the project will then generate a dedicated online resource that will be of real educational value to all future visitors to the shelter and will enhance and enrich the TPYF 1 funded website, 'Films from the Home Front'.
The programme is supported through the "Their Past Your Future
2 (TPYF 2) Programme" which receives funding from the Big Lottery
Fund, and is managed and delivered by the
MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Council).
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09-07-2007
Southern Steam Vol.3 DVD launched
SOUTHERN
STEAM 1937- 1967
Screen Archive South East, in conjunction with West Sussex Record Office,
has released a new DVD to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the demise
of steam on the Southern Region of British Railways in 1967. This DVD
is the third in a series featuring archival film of steam operation in
Southern England. It includes footage of lines which are just distant
memories. Running time is 70 minutes with colour and black and white footage.
Film footage includes: Steam on the Coastal Line (Worthing area) 1937,
Redhill Station 1960, London Steam 1962-1967 including Waterloo Station
and the "Kenny Belle" (the last steam suburban service in London),
last day of steam on the Isle of Wight, Three Bridges to East Grinstead,
Hayling Island 1963 including the last day of operation, the last day
on the Cuckoo Line 1965 (Polegate to Eridge), the Bowaters Paper Railway
1961.
The DVD is available for purchase, on its own or as part of a box set of all three in the series, from the West Sussex Record Office, all major libraries in West Sussex and on-line from the WSCC e shop.
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07-06-2007
Region on Film DVD launched
The Screen Archive South East has launched a new DVD focusing on films from around the South East region. This two-disc DVD, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, introduces you to the collection and the work of the Archive.
Disc One provides a thematic introduction to the collection through compilations with music. Disc Two presents a selection of uncut films, giving you a sense of how these films were first seen.
The full details on all of the films used on this DVD and the relevant contextual references are found within the Region on Film section of this website.
The DVD is available at larger libraries throughout Surrey, Sussex and Kent. If you would like further information on how to see the DVD, contact the archive for details.
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12-02-2007
website launched 
A new website featuring films of life on the home front in Britain during the Second World War is being launched this week.
Screen Archive South East, at the University of Brighton, in partnership with six other English Regional Film Archives, is launching the site as part of a £225,000 film archive project which forms part of the Big Lottery Fund’s £10 million Their Past Your Future (TPYF) programme, and was created with funding distributed by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
Over the last year all of these archives (London Screen Study Collection, Media Archive for Central England, Northern Region Film and Television Archive, Screen Archive South East, South West Film & Television Archive, Wessex Film & Sound Archive, Yorkshire Film Archive) have researched and digitised significant World War Two films from their collections for integration into this new online historical resource. The site, ‘Films from the Home Front’, offers free public access to these selected films, the majority of which are being made available to the public for the very first time.
This new lifelong learning resource is dedicated to giving people of
all ages the opportunity to
discover more about the impact of the Second World War and the immediate
post-war period on everyday life. It offers a unique perspective on the
lives of ordinary people in Britain on the home front as seen through
amateur films and home movies and alongside more ‘official’
sources such as newsreels and government films.
Margaret Cooney Big Lottery Fund Deputy Director Policy and Partnerships said: “This last strand of funding will bring about a new and enhanced dimension to the way in which we view our recent history. The quality and accessibility of the new digitisation project will provide a highly effective tool for learning, both inside and out of the classroom, to help people of all ages to understand and recognise the importance of sacrifices that people made during the Second World War.“
Justin Cavernelis-Frost, MLA’s Head of Archive Development, said: “This website connects us to our past and to our involvement in the Second World War. The MLA is pleased to have contributed to its creation and that these archives stand strongly alongside traditional educational resources.”
The site is organised into major themes, which explore issues characterising life during the war. These include: Children in War-time, Civil Defence, Community Life, Displaced People, Home and Family Life, Women's Role on the Home Front and Victory Celebrations in 1945.
They explain how the films reveal many dramatic changes that took place in the country during this period. In addition, each of the archives has its own section on the site highlighting how the films fit into the story of their region during the Second World War.
Films from the Home Front is part of the wider ‘Moving History’ website which presents other films from UK archives on all subjects and aspects of film history across the twentieth century.
‘Films from the Home Front’ can be visited at: www.movinghistory.ac.uk/homefront
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15-11-2006
Kent on Film DVD launched
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Kent Archives Service and Screen Archive South East have launched a new DVD "Kent on Film".
This is the first DVD dedicated to films of Kent from Screen Archive South East and the British Film Institute. The 60 minute DVD compilation introduces you to films of the county that have been made from 1895 and the beginnings of the cinema to the early 1960s. The first examples are from the Victorian and Edwardian eras and then the films range across many different aspects of life in the twentieth century: working on the land, town life, the seaside between the wars, the home front and the Second World War and events during the Festival of Britain in 1951. Through this selection, we visit Dover, Folkestone, Canterbury, Maidstone, Margate, Broadstairs, Egerton, Sevenoaks and Tunbridge Wells. - This DVD was produced by the Kent Archives Service and Screen Archive
South East at the University of Brighton. We thank all of our donors
and depositors and the British Film Institute for making the production
of this DVD possible.
Copyright: Kent Archives Service, Screen Archive South East and the rights holders, 2006 - The Kent on Film DVD is available at the Centre for Kentish Studies, Caterbury Cathedral Archives, East Kent Archives Centre and at town centre libraries across Kent.
- To purchase a copy of the DVD - call the Centre for Kentish Studies on: 01622 694459 or email: archives@kent.gov.uk
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10-10-2006
Screen Archive South East moves offices
- On Monday 9 October the Screen Archive at the University of Brighton
moved offices.
Our new location is on the third floor of the same building as our current office.
All visitors should report to the main reception on the ground floor.
If visiting the archive, please contact us prior to your visit to arrange an appointment.
Our postal address, email and phone numbers remain the same:
Screen Archive South East
Office and Access
University of Brighton
Grande Parade
Brighton BN2 0JY, UKTelephone: +44 (0)1273 643213
Fax: +44 (0)1273 643214
Email: screenarchive@brighton.ac.ukOur Preservation and Production office can still be contacted at:
Screen Archive South East
Preservation and Production
West Sussex Record Office
3 Orchard Street
Chichester
West Sussex
PO19 1DDTelephone: +44 (0)1243 753626
Fax: +44 (0)1243 533959
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16-05-2006
Screen Archive South East - a new identity
- Over the course of 2006, the South East Film & Video Archive is changing its identity. Our new name is Screen Archive South East and it announces a new beginning for the archive, given that our collection interests now focus not only on film and video but also on the magic lantern and on the new digital media of the 21st Century. The words ‘screen archive’ captures this wider vision for our work.
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16-05-2006
Screen Search - a new online resource
- Screen Search,
the new e-resource funded by the Arts
& Humanities Research Council, contains an enhanced catalogue
of selected films from the Screen Archive South East collection along
with contextual information and references to associated resources that
relate to the history of each film. Screen Search also provides stills
and video clips and is organised by themes and key collections. Screen
Search represents an exciting new initiative for the Screen Archive
as it will become the major vehicle for the archive's development of
research resources and e-learning initiatives.
- This project to put key films from the archive's collection online
began in 2003 and involved research into the background and histories
of the films in the collection, the digitisation of stills and clips,
and the development of an online database using the University of Brighton's
latest technology for the delivery of networked data and video on demand.
- Screen Search represents the first time the Screen Archive South East's collection has become fully searchable online, and the site aims to be a key resource for learning, teaching and research.