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Explore exclusive BBC footage digitised as part of the Fast-Forwarding Video Preservation project

EAFA Intern Holly Anderson explores some of the winning films from the Mashup Filmmaking Competition

Edible East Anglia on Film : A curated selection of films from the collections of the East Anglian Film Archive that explore the culinary traditions, practices and ceremonies of a region.

Nature, in its myriad forms, needs cherishing and championing more than ever, and this year EAFA is working with the University of East Anglia’s, Professor Steve Waters, whose AHRC funded project ‘The Song of the Reeds’ investigates how playwriting might complement conservation.

The Archive Alive project was an ERDF interreg IVA Channel Programme project led by Pôle Image Haute-Normandy, France with the Heritage Economic and Regeneration Trust (HEART) and the University of East Anglia (UEA) as project partners.

This catalogue of films from the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers (IAC) collection, held on long term deposit at EAFA, was produced with support from the National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives. The catalogue focuses on IAC Women Filmmakers.

A selection of films illustrating different aspects of film making and screening, both amateur and professional.

A true pioneer of early British filmmaking, Arthur Melbourne-Cooper began his life in pictures at his father's photographic business in the Hertfordshire cathedral city of St Albans. Keen to branch out into moving images, he first joined the firm of fellow pioneer Birt Acres for whom he worked as a camera operator, before establishing his own studios in St Albans.

With the launch of both Anglia Television and BBC East in October 1959, regional news had arrived. It was greeted with excitement: wherever a TV camera appeared a crowd would gather round, ready and willing to give their opinions on the pressing subject of the moment.

National stories, local interest: as TV moved into the colour era, the region found itself at the centre of what turned out to be some of the most significant, moving and controversial events of the decade.

Born in 1900 and living in Norwich, Charles Scott bought a cine camera in 1933 and besides filming his family and friends, he began recording the celebrations, parades and annual traditions of Norwich life in a series of amateur newsreels called ‘It Happened In Norwich’. These mirror closely the kind of stories covered by the local newspaper which supported the sense of heritage and distinct local identity; but these include local celebration of national events which were shared across the country.

Since the early days of the East Anglian Film Archive, founded in 1976, different ways have been explored to bring archive film to new audiences.

Aspects of the school day in mainstream and specialist state schools from the 1930s to the 1960s in films by a range of professional and amateur film makers. Is it possible to behave naturally when you are being filmed?

From the 1930s, the film industry responded to concern about children’s reaction to the confusing experience of watching adult cinema. Research studies analysed the types of film which children would most enjoy, and the best way to convey a positive moral message.

The Institute of Amateur Cinematographers' film library is eclectic and unique. It is truly international embracing films from all continents. Many films have won awards in prestigious national and international amateur film competitions.

The East of England region attracts film makers with its varied landscape and wildlife, including the Broads, the Fens, the Thames estuary and the smaller areas of specific natural interest.

The Garden City movement began in the East of England region with Letchworth founded by Ebenezer Howard in 1903, and Welwyn Garden City. New Towns were established in the 1940s at Basildon, Harlow, Hatfield, Hemel Hempstead, Peterborough, Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City. To house the London overspill, Expanded Towns were established in the 1960s at Braintree, Bury St Edmunds, Haverhill, Huntingdon, King’s Lynn, Long Melford, Mildenhall, Sandy, St Neots, Sudbury, Thetford and Witham.

A selection of films of health care and social welfare in the East of England region including pioneering developments in treatment of tuberculosis and transplant surgery.

Henry Anthony Vaughn Bullied was born in 1912 and raised on the railways, in the shadow of his father, O.V.S. Bulleid, who later served as the Chief Mechanical Engineer of Southern Railway between 1937 and 1948.

Here is a selection of films of small-scale crafts and industries – each creating the impression that you have seen the whole process, but in a fraction of the time.

The East Anglian Film Archive moved to the University of East Anglia in 1979 and formally became part of the University in 1984. The archive collection includes many films of aspects of this University, as well as the other prestigious universities and colleges of the region.

The travelogue continues in today’s television series like ‘Coast’, and originated with short films for cinema or small film show audiences.