Archives and libraries - Details of libraries and archives in the UK holding thousands of hours of footage, as well as stills and printed materials

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www.bbcmotiongallery.com

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.

www.bfi.org.uk/nftva

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.

www.britishpathe.com

eafa@uea.ac.uk

www.uea.ac.uk/eafa

Non Commercial:

film@iwm.org.uk

Commercial:

filmcommercial@iwm.org.uk

www.iwmcollections.org.uk/qryFilm.asp

info@focalint.org

www.focalint.org

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

uksales@itnsource.com

www.itnsource.com

macearchive@le.ac.uk

www.macearchive.org

agssc@llgc.org.uk

screenandsound.llgc.org.uk

enquiries@nrfta.org.uk

www.nrfta.org.uk

n.w.filmarchive@mmu.ac.uk

www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk

 
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.

ssaenquiries@nls.uk

ssa.nls.uk

screenarchive@brighton.ac.uk

www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive

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of hours of digitised video alongside thousands of stills, posters, production designs, press and publicity materials, unpublished scripts, personal papers, recorded interviews with filmmakers and actors, and interactive timelines.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 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.

showcase.commedia.org.uk

info@swfta.org.uk

www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=20771

enquiries.wfsa@hants.gov.uk

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/wfsa.htm

yfa@yorksj.ac.uk

www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com