The Yorkshire Film Archive is a registered charity which aims to find, preserve and also provides public access to videos, films and moving image made in or about the Yorkshire region.
The Yorkshire Film Archive also managed the collection that were held by the North East Film Arcive (NEFA). The two archives merged together in July 2012 and are now all under the Yorkshire Film Archive. However, because each region has an extremely strong identity, they both each hold their regional titles.
Between each archive, the charity has collected over 50,000 titles, 17,000 of these are held by the Yorkshire Film Archive and 33,000 of each are held by the North East Film Archive. This footage ranges from early film pioneers of the 1890s, to more recent footage which looks at the changing landscape and life across both of the regions.
Both the Yorkshire Film Archive and the North East Film Archive are based on University campuses, with specialist facilities such as temperature and humidity controlled film vaults, which are in place to safeguard the collections, and also there are specialist viewing and editing facilities to help in the work of making the collection accessible to everybody.
The Yorkshire Film Archive is based in York St John University and the North East Film Archive is based at Teesside University in Middlesborough. However, it isn't necessary to go to the Yorkshire Film Archive to view the footage as there is more than 80 hours worth of footage online at the Yorkshire Film Archive website. There is also a link on the way to deposit your own videos with them to help add to their collection.
After researching into the Yorkshire Film Archive, I wanted to search for my home town in the archive and I found some footage from the 1930s. I thought it was very interesting to see how the town had changed and stayed the same over the past 80 years. I think film archives are a very good way of preserving films and a good way of being able to show future generations what it is like today.
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