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This section lists individual films and collections of material which have recently been deposited with the NRFTA. Some of this material is available for viewing and commercial footage licensing, but other material may be unavailable due to preservation and/or copyright issues. Please see below for the current situation, and if you are interested in access to this material please refer to the page for commercial footage licensing enquiries or private/not-for-profit researchers as appropriate.
Newly arrived films waiting to be processed.
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| Accession no.: |
FA/121 |
| Depositor: |
Mr. Stuart Braye |
| Date of Deposit: |
Originally deposited in August 2002; accession formalities completed 3 September 2004 |
| Deposited Elements: |
20 Standard 8mm mute reversal positives & 22 Super 8mm mute reversal positives |
| Description of Content: |
A home movie collection shot by the family of a Middlesbrough policeman, c. 1962-1985. Includes footage of Middlesbrough special constables policing a football match. |
| Availability: |
Available for research viewing on NRFTA premises. All other use requires permission from the depositor. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/120 |
| Depositor: |
Mr. Jack Parsons
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| Date of Deposit: |
7 June 2004 |
| Deposited Elements: |
1 x 16mm combined positive and 1 x 16mm mute reversal positive (out-takes) |
| Description of Content: |
Combined release print of and out-takes reel from The Blackhill Campaign, a 52-minute documentary produced and directed by Mr. Parsons between 1959 and 1964 about attempts to prevent the closure of a coal mine in Northumberland. |
| Availability: |
The film is available for research viewing on NRFTA premises, and is also for sale on DVD. It is also available on 16mm or Digibeta for public screenings from ourselves, although any use apart from private research viewings requires the filmmaker's permission. |
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FA/118 |
| Depositor: |
Mr. Mark Lavender |
| Date of Deposit: |
7 March 2004 |
| Deposited Elements: |
2 1" C format videotapes, 4 Beta SP videocassettes, 3 Mini DV videocassettes and 2 edit decision list floppy discs. |
| Description of Content: |
Production materials relating to a documentary about the construction and opening of the Stockton-on-Tees Arts Centre in 1999. |
| Availability: |
Available for research viewing without restriction. All other use requires the permission of the copyright owner. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/114 |
| Depositor: |
North West Film Archive
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| Date of Deposit: |
20 January 2004 |
| Deposited Elements: |
1 16mm combined positive. |
| Description of Content: |
The Wordsworth Country, a 19-minute educational documentary about Cumbria and The Lake District. |
| Availability: |
This element was acquired in very poor condition, and sadly we cannot make this title available for access at present. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/112 |
| Depositor: |
North West Film Archive
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| Date of Deposit: |
20 October 2003 |
| Deposited Elements: |
2 Super 8mm combined positives. |
| Description of Content: |
Two professionally made documentaries about steam trains (c. 1965 & 1973), sold to railway enthusiasts with home movie projectors before the days of domestic video recorders. Much of the footage was shot in Cumbria, hence their acquisition. |
| Availability: |
Available for research viewing without restriction. All other use would need copyright clearance. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/111 |
| Depositor: |
National Film and Television Archive
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| Date of Deposit: |
2 September 2003 |
| Deposited Elements: |
6 16mm b/w cut camera negatives & 16mm optical sound final mix negatives. |
| Description of Content: |
Six road safety films produced by the Newcastle Amateur Cine Association between 1953 and 1956 and sponsored by a local garage. One of them, Leave It to Sam, won a prize at the 1954 Scottish Amateur Film Festival. |
| Availability: |
These are pre-print elements and as yet we do not hold viewing copies. We would need to have prints made at a cost of approximately £3,000 for all six titles before video or digital transfers could be made. We are therefore unable to provide access to this material at present. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/110 |
| Depositor: |
Yorkshire Film Archive
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| Date of Deposit: |
29 August 2003 |
| Deposited Elements: |
1 16mm combined positive. |
| Description of Content: |
The Hadrian Country, an educational film, c. 1956, about the construction of Hadrian's Wall and the impact of the Romans on Northern England. |
| Availability: |
This element was acquired in very poor condition and will need photochemical duplication before the content can safely be viewed. Furthermore our research so far has failed to identify the copyright owner. Sadly, therefore, we cannot offer access to this title at present. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/109 |
| Depositor: |
Lancashire County Record Office
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| Date of Deposit: |
20 May 2003 |
| Deposited Elements: |
15 16mm combined positives. |
| Description of Content: |
16mm release prints of miscellaneous issues from the National Coal Board's monthly newsreel Mining Review, which plug gaps in our existing run of viewing copies. |
| Availability: |
We have permission to make this material available for research viewing on our premises. The rights to Mining Review are now owned by the British Film Institute, whose permission is needed before we may supply viewing copies for off-premises viewing or license this material for broadcasting or public exhibition. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/108 |
| Depositor: |
Northumbrian Water
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| Date of Deposit: |
29 April 2003 |
| Deposited Elements: |
19 16mm combined positives, 2 16mm silent cut positives, 6 standard 8mm cut reversal positives and 2 1/4" audio tapes. |
| Description of Content: |
This collection consists of promotional and training films used by the Northumbrian Water Authority and its predecessor, the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company. Most were produced by or for the authority and were shot in the region, though a small number appear to be prints of films purchased from elsewhere. They cover topics such as water treatment and filtration, water supply, the use of water in the home and the construction of reservoirs. The collection includes two documentaries about the construction of Derwent Reservoir, Northumberland, in the mid-1960s, a sound recording of a debate at water engineers' conference about the scheme, a 1946 film on the public health advantages of water treatment produced by the legendary documentary maker Paul Rotha and several instructional films on how to avoid freezing water pipes in your house. |
| Availability: |
Most of these titles are available for research viewing and commercial licensing, although the preservation and copyright issues vary from title to title. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/107 |
| Depositor: |
United Utilities, Kendal |
| Date of Deposit: |
4 April 2003 |
| Deposited Elements: |
7 16mm cut reversal originals and 1 16mm combined positive. |
| Description of Content: |
These films were deposited by an electricity supply company in Cumbria. The bulk of the footage is unedited film from between 1936 and 1967. Some of the films show leisure activities in Cumbria during the 1930s and '40s (e.g. boating in the Lake District), but most illustrate the construction and and maintenance of telegraph poles and electricity pylons. There is also an incomplete print of a 1938 instructional film on the use of electric cookers, which we believe to be The Proof of the Pudding, commissioned by the Electricity Generating Council. No other UK archive currently holds a viewable copy of this film. |
| Availability: |
Most of this material is available for research viewing. The cookery film needs preservation work before it can safely be viewed, and will probably require copyright clearance and/or indemnity for commercial use. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/106 |
| Depositor: |
Ms. Lyn Catlow |
| Date of Deposit: |
26 March 2003 |
| Deposited Elements: |
3 standard 8mm silent positives |
| Description of Content: |
Three commercially released films (for showing on home movie projectors, before the days of video) produced in the 1960s to commemorate the withdrawal of steam engines from Britain's railways. |
| Availability: |
Content can be viewed for private research without restriction. Commercial use will require identification and clearance from third-party copyright owners. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/105 |
| Depositor: |
Mr. Craig Hornby
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| Date of Deposit: |
18 February 2003 |
| Deposited Elements: |
3 16mm combined positives, 1 16mm mute positives and 2 16mm reels of mute rushes (reversal originals). |
| Description of Content: |
Promotional films and unedited footage related to the steel industry. This deposit includes an incomplete print of The Building of the New Tyne Bridge (1928), two films produced by British Steel in the 1960s to promote the industry, two reels of out-takes and a short advertising film commissioned by the Middlesbrough firm Dorman Long to promote their plastic-coated corrugated steel sheeting. |
| Availability: |
Available for research viewing. The British Steel films will require copyright clearance from Corus for commercial use. |
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FA/104 |
| Depositor: |
Ms. Liz Bregazzi |
| Date of Deposit: |
9 January 2003 |
| Deposited Elements: |
10 standard 8mm reversal positives. |
| Description of Content: |
Home movies shot by a County Durham family. |
| Availability: |
Available for research viewing without restriction. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/103 |
| Depositor: |
Lakeland Horticultural Society, transferred from Kendal Record Office |
| Date of Deposit: |
6 February 2003 |
| Deposited Elements: |
10 16mm reversal positives and two 16mm silent prints |
| Description of Content: |
Home movies shot by the Groves family on the Holehird Estate, near Kendal, between 1934 and 1941. These include scenes of family life on the estate, sporting and leisure activities in the Lake District, mountaineering and ARP practice shortly after the outbreak of war. |
| Availability: |
Content is available for research viewing and commercial licensing without restriction. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/102 |
| Depositor: |
Dr. Margaret Lewis
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| Date of Deposit: |
10 December 2002 |
| Deposited Elements: |
2 16mm combined prints |
| Description of Content: |
Two 20-minute documentaries: Out of Nature (1949), about the Cumbrian sculptor Josefina de Vasconcellos, and Tom Pickard - Northumbrian Poet (1968), directed by the depositor, covering Pickard's work in the 1960s and the internationally known poetry readings at Newcastle's medieval Morden Tower. |
| Availability: |
Content is available for research viewing without restriction. Commercial use must be cleared with the depositor. |
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FA/101 |
| Depositor: |
Durham Constabulary
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| Date of Deposit: |
9 December 2002 |
| Deposited Elements: |
Approx. 300 elements in total, all 16mm. Most are combined prints of between 400 and 1,600 feet, with a small number of cut and unedited reversal originals. |
| Description of Content: |
A large collection of mainly instructional films, either made by or copies of films purchased by the County Durham Police Constabulary, dating from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s. Many of the films were made for training police officers in various aspects of their work, whilst others were produced to describe or promote the work of the police to more general audiences. The collection also includes a small amount of unedited footage. |
| Availability: |
There are no preservation issues affecting access. Some of the films contain violent and/or distressing images or provide detailed information about the ways in which certain types of offences are committed. Access to these titles may therefore be restricted by law. In such cases we would consult the depositor and/or copyright owner before providing access, either for private research or commercial use. Many of the titles will also require third-party copyright clearance for commercial use. |
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FA/100 |
| Depositor: |
Media Archive for Central England
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| Date of Deposit: |
3 December 2002 |
| Deposited Elements: |
2 16mm combined positives. |
| Description of Content: |
A Ship There Was (1952), a 25-minute fictional short about a Tyneside shipyard worker who saves to go on a luxury cruise, made to promote National Savings; and Not So Much a Warehouse (c. 1972), a film promoting the economic benefits of computer-controlled stock movement in warehouses, shot at a Warehouse in Birtley, County Durham. |
| Availability: |
Both titles are available for research viewing. Commercial use will require third-party copyright clearance. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/099 |
| Depositor: |
Multicord Ltd. |
| Date of Deposit: |
25 September 2002 |
| Deposited Elements: |
Approximately 200 UMatic and 50 Betacam SP videotapes. |
| Description of Content: |
Multicord was a small audio-visual production company based in Dunston, near Gateshead, which made promotional videos and advertisements for a wide range of businesses, mainly in Tyne and Wear, during the 1980s and '90s. When the company was wound up in 2002, its back catalogue was deposited with us. Multicord also produced radio commercials and other audio material, which has been deposited with Tyne and Wear Archives Service. |
| Availability: |
This material is available for research viewing without restriction. Commercial use will require third-party copyright clearance. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/098 |
| Depositor: |
North West Film Archive
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| Date of Deposit: |
27 May 2002 |
| Deposited Elements: |
1 16mm reversal original, 797ft. |
| Description of Content: |
'Scenes Around the Lake District, 1952-54' - home movie, origin unknown. |
| Availability: |
Available for research viewing and commercial use without restriction. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/097 |
| Depositor: |
Coldwell St. Methodist Church, Felling, Gateshead (Tyne and Wear) |
| Date of Deposit: |
24 May 2002 |
| Deposited Elements: |
2 16mm cut reversal originals. |
| Description of Content: |
Home movies of Felling Methodist pantomime performances: 'Married Women' (1949) and 'Babes in the Wood' (1950). Related printed material has also been deposited with Tyne and Wear Archives Service. |
| Availability: |
Available for research viewing without restriction. Commercial use will require third-party copyright clearance. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/096 |
| Depositor: |
Mr. Derek Tait |
| Date of Deposit: |
22 May 2002 |
| Deposited Elements: |
1 16mm reversal original. |
| Description of Content: |
This film is believed to show scenes of shipbuilding activity on Wearside in the mid-1930s. However, it is in too poor a physical condition to be viewed (see below). |
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This is a severely shrunk, brittle and buckled cellulose diacetate element. Its physical condition is so fragile that it cannot be viewed as a moving image at all, even on a continous-motion machine. The filmis currently awaiting the very costly procedure of film-to-film copying, which is the only way its content can ever be rescued. |
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| Accession no.: |
FA/095 |
| Depositor: |
Mr. Brian Stone, via Sunderland Local Studies Centre |
| Date of Deposit: |
15 May 2002 |
| Deposited Elements: |
2 35mm nitrate silent release prints and 27 standard 8 reversal originals |
| Description of Content: |
The two nitrate films show street scenes and community life in Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, in 1927, and three weddings, presumably of the photographer's daughters. These films are almost certainly 'local topicals', a form of cinema newsreel which was popular during the 1920s. The other elements appear to be home movies from the 1950s and 60s. |
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New polyester preservation negatives have been made of the two nitrate films, the content of which is available without restriction. The content of the 8mm elements is not yet known. |
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