The Collection
The collection policies of the English regional film archives are all broadly similar. They do not collect fictional feature films or TV programmes produced outside their regions and/or intended for network broadcast: this is the responsibility of the National Film and Television Archive. The NRFTA's collection consists mainly of regional TV news and regionally produced network output, industrial, promotional, educational and advertising films, and amateur film and video. Among its major collections are:
- BBC regional news filmed location reports for the north-east and Cumbria, covering 1957-1991.
- News, drama and documentary material produced by Tyne Tees Television, from 1956 to the mid-1990s.
- The complete output of Turners, a Newcastle-based production unit which made industrial and educational films from 1947-1995.
- The complete output of Trade Films, a Newcastle-based production unit which made campaigning films and videos for the trade union movement between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s.
- The film and video collection of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), produced by its corporate production unit based at the chemical works in Billingham, covering 1935-1992.
- A collection of training and public information films made by the Durham Police Constabulary.
- A collection of amateur film and video dating from 1928 to the present day.
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