The Northern Ireland Film Commission has produced a Digital Film Archive for the north, providing over fifty hours of free access to the history and culture of Northern Ireland from the late 19th century to the end of the 20th.
The Nerve Centre in Derry has designed the interface, with categories including ‘Documenting Life’, ‘Place’, ‘By Land or Sky’, ‘Then and Now’, ‘Through the Decades’ and ‘Dramatising Life’. Television dramas, documentaries, feature films, news footage and shorts all feature alongside reviews, script extracts, historic documents, diaries and contemporary newspaper reports complement and contrast with the clips.
The Archive will be launched this month, and will be accessible free of charge at six educational centres throughout Northern Ireland – Ulster Folk and Transport Museum at Cultra, St Patrick’s Trian in Armagh, Omagh College, the University of Ulster at Coleraine, W5 in Belfast and the Nerve Centre in Derry.
Further details are available from Karen Quinn or Eugene Finn at the NIFC.
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