Media
project: Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire
Grant Holder: Professor Colin MacCabe
The Colonial film project catalogues all films documenting and representing aspects of the British empire held by the British Film Institute, The Imperial War Museum, and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. The final catalogue will identify over 6000 films and some 10% of the collection will have enhanced entries bringing a wealth of detailed knowledge to illuminate particular films. A number of these films are analysed in detail, and around 30 hours are digitized and made freely available. The project mainly spans the years 1896-1965. [read more]
project: BBC North West regional news and documentary film 1966-1985: preservation and research access
Grant Holder: Marion Hewitt
A total of 687 regional programmes and nearly 1,000 (selected from over 15,000) news stories have been transferred from 16mm film originals to DigiBeta tape and DVD - making over 220 hours of material newly accessible. Anyone can view here at the North West Film Archive or material can be loaned to HE users on DVD for study elsewhere. Of the 16,000 stories in the BBC collection, around 1,600 (10%) have been transferred, and 160 (1%) have a brief sample clip attached. [read more]
project: Gavrik Losey and British film production from the mid 1960s and to the mid 1970s
Grant Holder: Professor Steve Neale
The Losey project entailed cataloging the Losey Papers held at the Bill Dougles Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture. [read more]
project: What is Black British Jazz? Routes, Ownership, Performance
Grant Holder: Mark Doffman
The ‘Black British jazz’ project (BBJ) explores the emergence of a distinct tradition within British music. BBJ melds reggae, hiphop, African music and US jazz into a rich, and constantly developing set of sounds. In documenting this musical hybrid, the project touches on important issues for the study of music – the transmission of cultural values, the social context of musical forms, and frameworks of ownership that impact on musical communities. [read more]