Manchester Metropolitan University
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: Posters of Conflict: The visual culture of public information and counter information
Grant Holder: Professor James Aulich
The project develops a resource of 10,000 images from Britain and the Commonwealth, France, Germany and Austro-Hungary selected from 15,000 public information posters in the collection of the Department of Art at the Imperial War Museum. [read more]