Unlocking Film Heritage
[1] British Film Institute (BFI) feared that the UK’s audiovisual heritage was in danger of being stranded in the analogue domain and forever inaccessible to the people of Britain.A jury of international experts were impressed by the highly collaborative nature of the UFH project, where expertise and commercial service providers from all of UK nations and regions participated.They jury also praised the new technologies and processes invented and used, where the aim was not only to care for the archival collections but also to make them accessible to a digitally connected world.The content depicts Norfolk life and includes scenes from Cromer and Caister in the 1930s, a visit by George Formby to the region in 1949, actress Joyce Grenfell in King’s Lynn in 1961, the K Shoe factory workers protest of 1976 and the Singing Postman.There are newsreels, advertisements, commercial and amateur films including: a phantom train ride through Conwy railway station (1898), an athletics and horse racing event at the Cardiff Stadium (1911), the Marquis of Anglesey's children playing with their nannies (1922), David Lloyd George with his pet dogs (c. 1929), Men Against Death (1933), a restoration of the first Welsh language feature film: Y Chwarelwr (The Quarryman) (1935), agricultural shows around Wales from the 1940s, majorettes at various carnivals in the Dulais Valley from the 1950s to 1970s, Tiger Bay and the Rainbow Club (1960), Tryweryn – The Story of a Valley (1969) and an Oscar winning documentary on Dylan Thomas (1962).