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

efront

VE Day Sevenoaks (1945)