Film Archive Forum

Videotapes and DVDs of materials held in the BFI National Archive are among the wide range of titles on offer commercially through bfi Video. Titles include South (1919), Silent Shakespeare, Piccadilly (1929), titles from the British Transport Films collection, the Archive Television strand, and the History of the Avant-Garde series. For further details and online ordering, visit BFI Filmstore.

Around forty videotapes of East Anglian life have been issued by the East Anglian Film Archive. Titles include And Now They Rest, Cambridgeshire and the Fens, John Betjeman in Norfolk and Suffolk Past. Details of titles are available the Archive's Archive Film Shop.

The IWM has made a number of its film holdings from the First and Second World Wars available for sale. Titles include Listening to Britain: A Jennings Trilogy, The Battles of the Somme and Ancre, War Women or Britain and Keeping the Wheels Turning: Women and Children at War 1939-1945. For further details visit the IWM Shop.

The NWFA offers a number of videotape compilations for sale. Titles include Moving Memories (nos. 1-4), Ship Canal Centenary Souvenir and A North West Journey - Buses, Trams & Trolley-buses 1927-1935. For further information and ordering details, visit the NWFA's merchandise web page.

The Scottish Screen Archive has issued twenty-five videotapes for sale, in the Films of Scotland and Treasures from the Archive series. Titles include Seawards the Great Ships/The River Clyde, The Face of Scotland/Wealth of a Nation and Surreally Scozzese. Further details are available from the Scottish Screen Archive's education and community access page.

The Wessex Film and Sound Archive has supplied a wide range of videotapes on local topics to schools, libraries and other bodies. Titles include Southampton Life, Farming and Rural Life, Wessex by Wave and Industry and Advertising. For details, see the WSFA video catalogue web page.

The 'Yorkshire Remembered' series is the first published compilation from the unique collections held by the Yorkshire Film Archive. Titles include A Region on the Move and From Coast to Country and further details are available from the Yorkshire Film Archive Shop.