Links

Introduction
The following links provide users with information about other organisations and companies which are related to the NRFTA and its work. The NRFTA is not responsible for the content of linked sites. N.B. If any of these links do not work, or if there are others you would like to see included, please , in order to help us keep this page up-to-date.

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Information about the NRFTA on Other Websites

Archon - National Archives' online research guide to regional collections.
Arts and Humanities Research Board Guide to UK Film and Television Archives - section on NRFTA.
BBC website produced to accompany the England on Film series.
British Film Institute Guide to Regional Collections.
North East Communities Online story on community media archiving project.
Researchers' Guide Online entry for the NRFTA.
UNESCO Archives Portal page listing UK audiovisual archives, including the NRFTA.

Professional Associations, Funding and Representative Bodies

The UK Film Archive Forum (public sector representative body for moving image archives)
British Universities' Film & Video Council (promotes the production, study and use of film and related media in higher and further education and research)
Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries (private sector representative body for moving image archives)
Northern Film and Media (government office promoting and funding moving image culture in the north-east of England) North East Museums, Libraries and Archives' Council (NEMLAC) - representative body for museums, libraries and archives in the north-east.
Museums, Libraries and Archives' Council (central government agency dealing with museums, libraries and archives in the UK)

UK Moving Image Archives - Public Sector, National

Imperial War Museum
National Film and Television Archive
National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
Scottish Screen Archive

UK Moving Image Archives - Public Sector, Regional

East Anglian Film Archive
Media Archive for Central England
North West Film Archive
South East Film and Video Archive
South West Film and Television Archive
Wessex Film and Sound Archive
(e-mail)

UK Moving Image Archives - Private Sector

N.B. most of the links in this section are via the FOCAL site. Please if you would like an entry updated to point directly to an organisation's URL, providing the address.

ABC News Intercontinental Inc
Airtime Television News
AKG London Ltd, Stills library
Associated Press Television News
BBC Broadcast - Programme Acquisitions
BBC Information & Archives
BBC North, Library & Information Services
BBC Resources, BBC Birmingham
BBC Scotland
BBC Worldwide Limited
BP Video Library
The British Defence Film Library
British Movietonews Limited
British Pathé (direct link)
Canal + Image UK Limited
Carlton International Media
Carlton Broadcasting West Country Region
The CCTV Archive
Channel 4 Clip Library
Contemporary Films
Diamond Time
Digital Vision
Educational & Television Films Limited
Film Images (London) Limited
Flashback Television Limited
Footage Farm
Fremantlemedia Enterprises
GMTV Library Sales
Granada Visual
Greenpark Productions Ltd
The Image Bank
Index Stock Shots
Iskra TV Limited
ITN Archive
London News Network Archives
McKinnon Films Limited
Moving Image Communications
Music Mall
National Geographic
National Maritime Museum Film Archive
The National Motor Museum
Octagon CSI Limited
Olympic Television Archive Bureau
On tv Earth Images Film Library
Open University Library Interactive Open Learning Centre & Media Archive
OSF Limited
Phil Slater Associates
Reuters Video News
RSPB Film Collection
Richard Weaver Films
S4C - Wales
Sunset & Vine
TWI Archives
Viewtech Film and Video
The Wellcome Trust
World Images

Other Links Related to Moving Image Archiving (including subject-specific archives)

19th Century Photography for genealogists (information on early photography)
American Advertising Museum
American Archive of the Factual Film - archive of educational, industrial and scientific film based at the University of Iowa
American Film Institute - page on film preservation
American Museum of the Moving Image
American Photography Museum
American Society of Cinematographers
American Widescreen Museum - information on widescreen film technology
Anthology Film Archives
ARCHIMEDIA - film archive scheme operated by the European Union, which offers advice and training.
Archive Builders - includes papers on technical issues.
"Archivists must choose heaven or hell for old films" - article on film preservation on CNN's website.
ARKive - digitised natural history archive containing images and sounds of endangered species.
Association des Cinématèques Européennes/Association of European film archives
Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) - The main international professional and representative body for moving image archiving. Both individuals and organisations can join.
Audio Engineering Society (AES) - includes information on preserving archival audio tape collections.
AURORA: AUtomated Restoration of ORiginal film and video Archives
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive - US archive which preserves foreign, arthouse and avant-garde titles.
Black Film Center/Archive - at the Department of Afro-American Studies at Indiana University.
British Library National Sound Archive
British Universities Newsreel Database (BUND)
CD Information Center - technical information on CD and DVD technology, including preservation.
Report on CD media longevity.
Chemistry Video Consortium Project - Online video footage related to chemistry teaching.
Cinema Theatre Association - UK organisation which preserves historic cinema buildings.
Conservation Online (Stanford University) - section on motion pictures
Disaster Preparedness in Libraries and Archives
Directory of Regional, State and Local Archival Organizations in the United States
Don McLean's pages on the recovery of the earliest recordings of television
DTVWeb - information on digital TV broadcasting
Digital Video information
eFootage - US-based online stock shot library
European Archival Network (EAN) - information about archives in the European Union.
European Preservation Information Center - Site of the European Commission on Preservation and Access.
FRAME - Information on the FRAME digital film restoration system, hosted by the European Centre for Parallel Computing in Vienna.
Facets - American online video catalogue, offering titles that are often impossible to find in the UK.
Fictional World of Archives, Art Galleries and Museums - the depiction of archives and archivists in art and literature.
Film Archives Online
Film Archive of Human Ethology at the University of Munich.
Film Center - US website offering advice and resources for home cinema and small gauge film enthusiasts.
Film Forever - Advice for 'home archivists' wanting to preserve their home movies
Film-Tech - online discussion group for projectionists and cinema technicians.
Harvard University Film Archive
Heritage Forum - online journal.
How To Bake A Tape, Article 1 - Article 2 - information on heating decomposed magnetic tape in order to copy it.
How To Save Your Stuff From a Disaster
iFilm.com - a range of short films available for viewing online.
Image and Sound Archiving and Access: the challenges of the 3rd Millennium
Image Permanence Institute - an organisation which researches problems of chemical decomposition in film and photographic media.
International Association of Sound Archives
International Council of Museums
International Entertainment Multimedia; Intellectual Property Law & Business Network - information on copyright related issues.
International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) - another representative body, which organises a bi-annual 'congress'. Membership is only open to public sector institutions and is more restrictive than AMIA.
International Federation of Television Archives
International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
Internet Archive
The Internet Movie Database
Journal of Film Preservation
KINEMA: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media
Kodak: information from their website on Film Care, Film Storage and Molecular Sieves and the Prevention of the 'Vinegar Syndrome'.
L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation - American MA course in film archiving based in Rochester, NY.
Information on the US Library of Congress website on Care, Handling and Storage of Motion Picture Film, Copyright Law in the US and Preservation Research and Testing.
Little Film - small gauge enthusiasts' website, including home preservation advice.
Magnetic Media Preservation Sourcebook
Managing Agent and Advisory service - Prepares moving image content for online use by UK universities.
Memoriav: Association for the Preservation of the Audiovisual Heritage of Switzerland
Museum of Broadcast Communications at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Museum of Sound
Museum of Modern Art, New York - Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center
Museum of Television and Radio
The Movie Posters Archive
National Film Board of Canada
National Film Preservation Foundation - Government funded body which co-ordinates film preservation activity in the United States.
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television at Bradford.
Olympic Television Archive - sporting footage held by the International Olympic Committee.
Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain
Sabucat Productions - archive of feature film trailers.
Screen Online - British Film Institute site on UK film and television history.
ScreenSound Australia - Australian national film and sound archive
Silent Film Bookshelf - information on film technology before 1930.
SIRIUS - information on the digital restoration of film
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers - an international organisation which develops technical standards in the audiovisual industries.
South East Asia & Pacific Audiovisual Archives' Association - representative body.
Theatre Historical Society of America (THSA) - US equivalent of the Cinema Theatre Association
'Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and Access: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Curators'
Vanderbilt Television News Archive - archive of television news footage in the US.
Video Format Identification Guide - Sarah Stauderman's illustrated guide to identifying rare and obsolete types of videotape
Video Recording Formats - detailed technical information on historical video formats.

Museums, Archives and Libraries in the Northern Region of England

Museums

County Durham:

Ankers House Museum
Aycliffe & District Bus Preservation Society
Beamish,The North of England Open Air Museum
Binchester Roman Fort
Bowes Museum
Darlington North Road Station Museum
Durham Castle
Durham Cathedral Monks Dormitory Museum
Durham Cathedral Treasury
Durham Heritage Centre
Durham Light Infantry Museum & Art Gallery
Durham Old Fulling Mill Museum of Archaeology
Durham University Oriental Museum
Killhope - The North of England Lead Mining Museum
Timothy Hackworth Victorian and Railway Museum
Weardale Museum

Northumberland:

Alnwick Castle
Baliffgate Museum
Bellingham Heritage Centre
Berwick Borough Museum & Art Gallery
Border History Museum
Cherryburn; Thomas Bewick Birthplace Museum
Chesters Roman Fort
Corbridge Museum
Cragside
Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland
Heatherslaw Mill
Housesteads
Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Lady Waterford Hall
Lindisfarne Castle
Lindisfarne Priory
Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum
RNLI Grace Darling Museum
Vindolanda: Roman Army Museum, Carvoran & Chester Holm Museum
Wallington Hall
Woodhorn Colliery Museum
Wylam Railway Museum

Tees Valley:

Billingham Art Gallery
Captain Cook Birthplace Museum
Cleveland Crafts Centre
Dorman Museum
Green Dragon Museum
Guisborough Museum
Hartlepool Art Gallery
Kirkleatham Old Hall Museum
Margrove Heritage Centre
Middlesbrough Art Gallery
Museum of Hartlepool
North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group
Ormesby Hall
Preston Hall Museum
RNLI Zetland Lifeboat Museum
Tom Leonard Mining Museum
Trincomalee Trust

Tyne & Wear:

Archives (entire region)

Libraries

Business & Commercial

Faulkner Browns Architects
PB Power Ltd
Proctor & Gamble Technical Centres Ltd

Libraries in Institutes of Higher Education:

Bishop Auckland College
City of Sunderland College
Darlington College of Technology
East Durham & Houghall Community College
Gateshead College
Hartlepool College of Further Education
Middlesbrough College
Newcastle College
North Tyneside College
Northumberland College
South Tyneside College
Stockton and Billingham College of Further Education
Durham University Library
Newcastle University Library
University of Northumbria at Newcastle Learning Resources
University of Sunderland Information Services
University of Teesside Library and Information Services

Other Libraries

Literary & Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne
Natural History Society of Northumbria
Ushaw College Library

Public Libraries

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