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St Marks Whit Walks (1969). The St Mark's Church, Cheetham Hill's Whit Walk in 1969, an example of colour amateur film from the collection of the North West Film Archive CWS Canning Factory (c.1930). Film of a Co-operative Wholesale Society fish canning factory in Lowestoft, Suffolk, originally issued free for promotional purposes on 9.5mm film. An example of the local films on small gauges held by the East Anglian Film Archive Bradford Festival Mela (1998). Film commissioned by the Yorkshire Film Archive of the multicultural Bradford Mela Festival

In Autumn 2011 the 'Film Archive Forum' is being relaunched as Film Archives UK.

Film Archives UK (Film Archive Forum) represents the UK's public sector film and television
archives in all archival aspects of the moving image, and acts as the advisory body on national
moving image archive policy.

Seawards the Great Ships (1960). Academy Award-winning documentary made by Films of Scotland, about shipbuilding on the Clyde. Part of the Scottish Screen Archive collection The Battle of the Somme (1916). The most celebrated documentary film produced during the First World War, whose images now form part of the national collective conciousness of the war. It is preserved by the Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive. Fishermen at Work in Berwick Upon Tweed (1945), a home movie shot on Kodachrome. Over 90% of the surviving colour film shot before 1950 was taken by home movie makers, offering a unique snapshot of British life during the first half of the century. A film from the Northern Region Film and Television Archive

Information on this silte will be updated in the Autumn of 2011.
The new Film Archives UK website is currently being developed but for further
information, you can visit any one of the member archives. Their contact details are
listed on the Archives page.

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