Executive Business Centre, Bournemouth University. A FREE EVENT – but you need to Register. With speakers from around the world including Leontien Bout (Eye Institute, the Netherlands) ‘Dealing with orphan works: a film archive’s perspective’
The FOCAL International Awards, celebrate achievement in the use of footage in all variety of genres, across all media platforms plus its restoration. The 2017 Awards Ceremony is on 25th May and includes 3 final nominations for Archive and Preservation:
Learning on Screen are currently running a series of introductory and advanced metadata courses at their offices on Wells Street, London.The next course, CURRENT METADATA ISSUES, will be held on the 25th May
Messages Home: Lost Films of the British Army
This new Channel 4 documentary about North West Film Archive’s ‘Calling Blighty’ project was originally broadcast on Sunday June 26th 2016. You can now watch it on C4’s on demand service.
Sign up now for London Screen Archive’s archive film copyright & licensing course – in London 21st February 2017
FAUK members head north of the border to sample both archive and culinary delights in Glasgow, new home of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive.
Dr Alex Southern, film archivist, education historian and researcher releases new book – ‘The Ministry of Education Film Experiment’
Following the success of a Stage 1 bid to the HLF, NEFA are looking to develop their Engagement Strategy and assess future options for their Collections Information Systems
“I was never interested in film as a youngster, I never really went to the cinema. My big plan was to be a university librarian” -Director of MACE, James Patterson is looking forward to retirement but shares his fond memories of 37 years working with archive film.
FAUK Member, Ruth Washbrook, Head of Moving Image and Sound Collections, sat alongside the First Minister as she got a taste of this wonderful resource.
