TV Broadcasts Incorporating NRFTA Footage

Forthcoming Broadcasts

The Way We Were, Series 4 (Honky Tonk Productions, 2006)

A new series of Tyne Tees' amateur-film based popular history programme begins production this summer, and is anticipated to use a substantial amount of NRFTA footage.

Past Broadcasts

Look North, 31 January 2006

As part of a news item on the redevelopment of a former ICI site on Teesside, the BBC's regional news programme included 56 seconds of historical footage from the ICI collection. This material is included on our Chemicals and Community DVD.

V.E. Day in Colour (TWI Ltd, 2005)

This latest instalment in TWI's 'In Colour' series of amateur film-based documentaries included footage taken by a Gateshead police officer of a victory street party in Wallsend.

The Way We Were, Series 2 (Honky Tonk Productions, 2004-5)

The NRFTA has worked with Tyne Tees on a second series of this popular local history programme.

Time Shift - Tyneside Revisited, BBC4, tx. 12 June 2003

This programme explored the historical background to the regeneration of Newcastle and Gateshead into regional centres of culture, culminating in the (unsuccessful) bid for Capital of Culture city, 2008. NRFTA footage was used in the section of the programme dealing with T. Dan Smith and his staging of celebrations to mark the centenary of the Blaydon Races in 1961.

England on Film, BBC2, tx. 20 March, 27 March & 3 April 2003

This was the pilot series for what eventually became the BBC's long-running Nation on Film, which explores life, work and culture in the English regions through the holdings of its regional moving image archives. The first series focused on the North East and Cumbria, with the NRFTA providing approximately 60 minutes of footage.

Tyne Tees Regional News Broadcast, 24 February 2003, 1800-1825 hours

A clip from the 1952 documentary Going Places, about the bus service in Sunderland, was shown as part of a news item.