All Go Margate (1970)
Online film and TV archive resources and
higher education
Dr Frank Gray and Elaine SheppardScreen Archive South East
University of Brighton
Online Projects
• Moving History website 2001-2003
• Films from the Home Front 2006-2007
• Screen Search resource 2003 >
Moving History
• working collaboratively with other Regional Film Archives and national archives
• creating a central point for information on the collections of the 12 archives
• working collaboratively with other RFAs again
• developing a site devoted to a particular subject
Films from the Home Front
Screen Search
• importance of contextual information• linked to further sources of information• difference between a catalogue and a
resource• intended as a research resource• future - working with academics to develop
tailored ‘packages’ for teaching and learning• future - opportunities for direct input from
users
Academic Use and Archives
• creating resources is not enough - need to meet needs and enable users
• importance of encouraging and stimulating new research
• unmediated and mediated resources• the value of curated packages
Future challenges & directions
• Working collaboratively with other collections, bringing content together?
• Richer and deeper resources• Web 2 - UGC - encouraging user input • Focusing on the needs of users not the
benefits to the archive• Increasing size and quality of online video• Overcoming issue of project based funding -
towards sustainability
• www.brighton.ac.uk/screensearch• www.brighton.ac.uk/movinghistory• www.brighton.ac.uk/movinghistory/hom
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VE Day Sevenoaks (1945)