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Yet again, the good folks of the Media Archive for Central England came up with the goods for us to screen. Audiences were transported back to sample rural Herefordshire life back in the days when horsepower meant just that and a mobile phone was one with a long enough cord to carry through to the next room. Amongst other things, a … Read More

The Media Archive for Central England has a 70,000 film strong collection holed up in their vaults. The fabulous people of Flatpack Festival, true to form, mined this dizzying collection of films to come up with a brilliant programme of archive material. Author Catherine O’Flynn gave an introduction to Breathing Space, with a unique insight into the 1960s Birmingham sculpture … Read More

With the Westcountry in our hearts, the good folks at the South West Film and TV Archive are always going to have some films that strike a chord with us. There’s nothing like seeing somewhere familiar brought to life sixty years gone – almost as if the local high street has been transformed into a film set for a period … Read More

These are some of the fantastic people who are out there busily saving archive films from the ravages of time so that we can continue to peek into life in times gone by. The Digital Heritage Project is a cross-channel digitisation project that aims to increase public access to a unique collection of archive films from the East of England … Read More

There’s something magic about archive films – it’s as close as you’ll ever get to time travel. These films from the Bristol Record Office show a picture of life gone by, whether extolling the health-giving properties of Bristol-brewed beer, or taking the audience on a hectic journey around one of Britain’s busiest ports. Screened at ENCOUNTERS FILM FESTIVAL, November 2010