Film & Media

Film and Media Resources

The regional film archives celebrate our past and are a valuable resource for local moving images and sound.  Screen Archive South East and Wessex Sound and Film Archive are partners with Screen South, who are the organisation with responsibility for nurturing film and media in the south. They receive funding to manage access to the region's film heritage.

Screen Archive South East is a public sector moving image archive serving the South East of England. Established in 1992 at the University of Brighton as the South East Film & Video Archive, the function of this regional screen archive is to locate, collect, preserve, provide access to and promote screen material related to the South East and of general relevance to screen history. It operates in partnership with the West Sussex Record Office.              

Screen Archive South East
University of Brighton
Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY, UK
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643213
Fax: +44 (0)1273 643214
Email: screenarchive@brighton.ac.uk
Website: Screen Archive South

Wessex Film and Sound Archive (WFSA) was set up in 1988 to acquire, preserve and make accessible cinefilm, video and sound recordings of local interest. The Archive is based in Hampshire Record Office but, because of its specialist nature covers Central Southern England, including the surrounding counties of Berkshire and the Isle of Wight as well as Hampshire. WFSA has substantial holdings of some 18,000 items comprising professional and newsreel film, amateur film, research and advertisement films from local companies, local radio tapes, oral history recordings, and gramophone discs and tapes. For further information, please see the Hants Record Office website.