Yorkshire and North East Film Archive

What Yorkshire and North East Film Archive makes

Topics film, historical, documentary, archive, cultural-heritage

Whether it’s our amazing landscapes, our rich industrial heritage, our cities, towns, villages, coast and country stretching from Sheffield to the Scottish borders, amateur and professional filmmakers alike have been capturing life in Yorkshire and the North East of England on film for over 130 years. As a registered charity, our work is to collect, preserve, and make these extraordinary collections accessible for everyone. With over 70,000 items of original film, video tape, and born-digital material, the task of preserving, cataloguing, and digitising these collections is immense – but so are the rewards. People are fascinated to see their own communities, the lives of their grandparents and great-grandparents, the fashions, transport, the momentous events of the decades, through to the fascinating insight into the everyday lives of people throughout the past century. Our website features over 2,500 films, all free to view: www.yfanefa.com

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