UK: "BFI Launches Searchable Archive of Ancient Film Clips"
The British Film Institute has launched a free catalogue of digitised film clips from its extensive library, at a website called Search Your Film Archives.
This massive repository of grainy black-and-white clips, candid home movies, archival footage from long-dead documentaries and snippets from ancient films can be flicked through by the general public.
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Alongside the Search Your Film Archives, SHUK has created the Master Film Store. This monster dry fridge in Warwickshire preserves film prints and negatives at optimum conditions and safe from decay and fire.
Direct to Search Your Film Archives
Read the Complete Wired UK Article
See Also: “Screen Heritage UK launches”
See Also: “Welcome to BFI beta”
See Also: UK: “BFI’s New £12m Film Storage Facility to Preserve Britain’s Reel History”
Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Open Access, Resources
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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