Screen Archive South East

Based at the University of Brighton

Regional screen media archive, covering Surrey, East & West Sussex and Kent

Collecting films made in the South East by local people

Material dating from 1896 to the present

Screen Archive South East’s collections

• amateur films

• home movies

• films made by companies, cine-clubs, charities and other organisations

• documentaries

• short fiction films

Storage, preservation & digitisation

Online access: Screen Archive South East website

http://www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive/

Screen Search Online Catalogue

Screen Search Online Catalogue – sample record

Screen Search Fashion

Visual & textual learning

Understanding context 1930s menswear

Learning from the Archive

Student & tutor responses

Students liked viewing events from “real people’s lives”

“It’s nice to be able to see the garments worn by the people of the day, rather than in a still image or hanging in a museum.”

Some were inspired to make their own films as a way of exploring ideas about movement.

A few were uncomfortable with archive films and not sure how to approach them as research material.

A tutor commented: ‘a wonderful resource - the immediacy of non-fiction film is extraordinary.'

Ongoing value to HE and FE

UK institutions International institutions

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