Film Archives
We do not hold film for any newsreel or cinemagazine listed on News on Screen.
News on Screen is a record of what British newsreels and cinemagazines were produced, not what physically exists. The guide below indicates which archives in the UK hold the newsreel and cinemagazine series listed on News on Screen, but it is not a guarantee that a particular item is held there. Please check with these archives for further details.
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AP Archive
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7482 7482
- email: info@aparchive.com
- Web: www.movietone.com
- Holdings:
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BFI Archive Footage Sales
- Address: 21 Stephen Street, London W1T 1LN
- Tel: 020 7957 8932
- Fax: 020 7580 7503
- email: tony.dykes@bfi.org.uk
- Web: www.bfi.org.uk/afs
- Holdings:
- British Sporting Personalities
- Calendar
- Carrousel Britanico
- Commonwealth Review
- Commonwealth Teleview
- Dateline Britain
- Frontier
- Frontier (Colour series)
- Living Tomorrow
- London Line
- London Line (Colour series 1)
- London Line (Colour series 2)
- Looking At Britain
- Parade
- Portrait
- Roundabout
- The Enthusiasts
- The Pacemakers
- This Is Britain
- This Week In Britain
- Tomorrow Today
- Topic
- Transatlantic Teleview
- Viewpoint
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BFI National Archive
- Address: 21 Stephen Street London W1T 1LN
- Tel: 020 7255 1444
- Fax: 020 7580 7503
- Web: www.bfi.org.uk/nftva/
- Holdings:
- Around the Town
- Britain Can Make It
- British Sporting Personalities
- Calendar
- Carrousel Britanico
- Cinegazette
- Colonial Cinemagazine
- Commonwealth Review
- Commonwealth Teleview
- Dateline Britain
- Eclair Journal
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
- Frontier
- Frontier (Colour series)
- Gaumont Mirror
- Gaumont Sound Mirror
- Ideal Cinemagazine
- Ideal Sound Cinemagazine
- Ingot Pictorial
- Laing News Review
- Living Tomorrow
- London Line
- London Line (Colour series 1)
- London Line (Colour series 2)
- Look At Life
- Looking At Britain
- Mining Review
- Moslems in Britain
- Oil Review
- Panorama
- Parade
- Pathe Monthly
- Pictorial News (Official) / War Office Official Topical Budget
- Pictorial News / Topical Budget
- Pictorial News / War Office Official Topical Budget
- Portrait
- Review
- Roundabout
- Scrapbook
- Shell Cinemagazine
- The Enthusiasts
- The Pacemakers
- This Is Britain
- This Week In Britain
- Tomorrow Today
- Topic
- Topical Budget / War Office Official Topical Budget
- Transatlantic Teleview
- Unilever Magazine
- Viewpoint
- War Office Official Topical Budget
- War Office Official Topical Budget and Pictorial News
- Whirlpool of War
- Workers’ Topical News
- Notes:
The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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BP Video Library
- Address: 52/54 Southwark Street, London SE1 1UN
- Tel: 020 7357 7521
- Fax: 020 7357 9953
- email: bpvl@bp.com
- Web: www.bpvideolibrary.com
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British Pathe Ltd
- Address: The Media Centre, 3 – 8 Carburton Street London W1W 5AJ
- Tel: 0207 665 8340
- email: info@britishpathe.com
- Web: www.britishpathe.com/
- Holdings:
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Up to 3,500 hours of material is available for free low-resolution download, covering the whole of the Pathe newsreel and cinemagazine film library. Series available include Pathe News, Pathe Pictorial and Eve’s Film Review.
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Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive
- Address: Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ
- Tel: 020 7416 5291
- Fax: 020 7416 5379
- email: film@iwm.org.uk
- Web: http://collections.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.00g004
- Holdings:
- Airfront Gen Operational Supplement
- Airfront RAF Operational Film Record
- Pictorial News (Official) / War Office Official Topical Budget
- Pictorial News / War Office Official Topical Budget
- The Gen
- Topical Budget / War Office Official Topical Budget
- War Office Official Topical Budget
- War Office Official Topical Budget and Pictorial News
- War Pictorial News
- Warwork News
- Worker and Warfront
- World Pictorial News
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The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.
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ITN Source
- Address: 200 Gray’s Inn Road
- London WC1X 8XZ
- Tel: 020 7430 4480
- Fax: 020 7430 4453
- email: uksales@itnsource.com
- Web: www.itnsource.com
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ITN Source (formerly ITN Archive) holds ITN’s television news broadcasts from 1955, and the Reuters Television library of British cinema newsreel material (Gaumont-British News, Gaumont Graphic, British Paramount News, Universal News and others).
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London ’s Transport Museum
- Address: 39 Wellington Street, Covent Garden London WC2E 7BB
- Tel: 020 7379 6344
- Fax: 020 7565 7254
- email: simon.murphy@ltmuseum.co.uk
- Web: www.ltmuseum.co.uk
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North West Film Archive
- Address: The Manchester Metropolitan University
- Minshull House, 47-49 Chorlton Street, Manchester M1 3EU
- Tel: 0161 247 3097
- Fax: 0161 247 3098
- email: nw.filmarchive@mmu.ac.uk
- Web: www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk
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Scottish Screen Archive
- Address: 39-41 Montrose Avenue, Hillington Park, Glasgow G5 4LA
- Tel: 0845 366 4600
- Fax: 0845 366 4601
- email: archive@scottishscreen.com
- Web: www.scottishscreen.com
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The IWM and NFTVA also hold copies of some items
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Shell Film and Video Unit
- Address: Video Media Services, Shell Centre, London SE1 7NA
- Tel: 020 7934 3318
- Fax: 020 7934 4918
- email: jane.paynor@shell.com
- Web: www.shell.com
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