SCREEN ARCHIVE SOUTH EAST

Description

Screen Archive South East is a public sector moving image archive serving the South East of England. Established in 1992 at the University of Brighton as the South East Film & Video Archive, the function of this regional screen archive is to locate, collect, preserve, provide access to and promote screen material related to the South East and of general relevance to screen history. The screen material in the collection consists of magic lantern slides, film, videotape, digital formats and associated hardware and documentation. There are now over 7000 films and some 10,000 lantern slides from the nineteenth century as well as a significant collection of apparatus and related artefacts. The film material has come to us from record offices, museums, businesses, local authorities and private collections across the region. It includes corporate documentaries, promotional material produced for seaside resorts and the military and work made by cine clubs, independent film-makers and families.

Website

http://www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive

Keywords

Kent; Advertising films; East Sussex; Sussex; West Sussex; Amateur films; Medway; Brighton; Sherriff, Robert Cedric; Surrey; Tourism; Smith, George Albert; Williamson, James; Hepworth, Cecil; Royal Sussex Regiment

Access

Limited access. By arrangement only. Access for disabled.

Facilities

Viewing on premises.

Charges

Charges for research for broadcast productions. Charges for facilities and handling. A price list is available upon request.

Copyright

Copyright held in some cases. Copyright advice available.

Moving Image, Audio and Related Documentation Holdings

Video/Film

Video: Video holdings are transfers from master film material held in the collection.
Video components: VHS Video, S-VHS Video, hi-band U-Matic, Beta/Beta-SPand DigiBeta.
Film: 2,000 cans. The collection comprises promotional and publicity films (20%), amateur footage (20%), documentaries (10%, short films and home cinema release (5%), news and current affairs (10%), educational films (5%), home movies and family films (30%). 30% colour film, 70% black and white film, 5% nitrate film.
Film components: 8mm, Super 8mm, 9.5mm, 16mm, 35mm, positive film, negative film.

Catalogues

Computerised database

Searchable online database of selected material available at www.brighton.ac.uk/screensearch. Database of further material also available in-house.

Additional Information

Notes

In development for an on-line use in museums, libraries, record offices and schools.

Conservation policy

The Screen Archive’s preservation activities are determined by the condition and nature of the material and the income available for this work. To safeguard the archive ‘original’, where possible a preservation ‘master’ is created by copying the original onto new film stock. All film, video and digital ‘originals’ are transferred onto either a digital tape or disc in order to create a digital access master.

Main Contact

Name

Dr. Frank Gray

Job title

Archive Director

Telephone

01273-643213

Fax

01273-643128

Email

screenarchive@brighton.ac.uk

Address

University of Brighton
Grand Parade
Brighton
BN2 0JY

Alternate Contact

Name

Ine van Dooren

Job title

Archivist