ULSTER FOLK AND TRANSPORT MUSEUM

Description: Founded in 1958, the Museum holds a sizable audiovisual archive which includes film and videotape material. Material from BBC Northern Ireland is also held in the collection. Northern Ireland’s new Digital Film Archive (see note below) includes newsreel footage of the Belfast-built Titanic, World Wars I and II, aviatrix Amelia Earhart’s accidental landing at Derry in the 1930s, and the reconstruction years of the 1950s. TV footage includes the Beatles interviewed on UTV in the early 1960s, documentaries, television news, drama and feature films. The Digital Film Archive is available free of charge on PCs to six educational centres around Northern Ireland - St Partick’s Trian in Armagh, Omagh College, the University of Ulster at Coleraine, the Nerve Centre in Londonderry, W5 at the Odyssey in Belfast and at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
Website: http://www.uftm.org.uk/
Keywords: World War II; Northern Ireland; Transport; World War I; Pop music; Folklore; Beatles, The; Earhart, Amelia; Shipbuilding industries; Titanic
Access: Access varies, depending on source of collection agreements etc. Generally, material is available for educational and research use.

Video/Film: Video components: VHS Video, hi-band U-Matic, lo-band U-Matic, 1-inch Video, 2-inch Video.
Film: The subject matter of the collections covers all aspects of everyday life in the Province.
Film components: Positive Film, negative film, final mix.

Digitised catalogue: Northern Ireland’s first Digital Film Archive was launched at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in November 2000. This gives the public access to over 50 hours of moving images reflecting the history and culture of Northern Ireland from 1897 to 2000.

Notes: Various retrieval techniques. All material is classified under a museum system.
Conservation policy: Policy under development.

Name: Mr. Kenneth Anderson
Job title: Head of Photographic Archive
Telephone: 02890-428428
Fax: 02890-428728
Email: clifford.harkness4@btinternet.com
Address: National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland
Cultra
County Down
Holywood
BT18 0EU

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