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Norwich HEART's Digital Heritage Project has brought archive alive by launching its brand new website archivealive.org. 

Archive Alive is a showcase of the best films found in the University of East Anglia's East Anglian Film Archive, and in the archives of Upper Normandy in France. This unique resource helps compare and contrast the regions across 100 years of history with film footage from as early as 1896.

Designed to coordinate with the National Curriculum across all key stages, each film can be used within the classroom using an in depth keyword search system that lets teachers and students find exactly what they are after. 

Each film also comes with background information, contextualising the history of our regions.

This cross channel digitisation project aims to increase public access to a unique collection of archive films from the East of England and Upper Normandy in France from the turn of the 20^th century. HEART is collaborating with Rouen based screen agency Pôle Image Haute-Normandie and the archive film collections of the East Anglian Film Archive to bring this valuable, moving image history alive for modern audiences.

 

Archive Alive Mobile Cinema Tour

In June 2013, the Digital Heritage Project will be taking archive film on the road courtesy of a 1960s vintage mobile cinema to bring the archive alive to people throughout Essex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk.

This exciting and unique tour will incorporate the mobile cinema stopping at 17 locations across East Anglia to offer free screenings of local archive films from the last century aboard the 22 seater digital cinema.

The Archive Alive tour will kick off on Sunday 2 June in Clacton-on-sea, Essex and will complete its journey in Hunstanton, Norfolk on Monday 10 June. The complete itinerary is as follows:

Sunday 2 June – CLACTON (9.30am - 12.30pm Town Square), COLCHESTER (3pm - 6pm Castle Park)

Monday 3 – HARLOW (10am - midday Market Place), HAVERHILL (3.30pm - 6.30pm Market Square)

Tuesday 4 – ELY (10am - 1pm The Maltings), CAMBRIDGE (3.30pm - 7pm Parker's Piece)

Wednesday 5 – RAF LAKENHEATH (for airbase personnel only)

Thursday 6 – DISS (10am - 12.30pm Mere's Mouth), BURY ST EDMUNDS (3pm - 6pm Cornhill)

Friday 7 – IPSWICH (10am - 12.30pm Lloyds Avenue), ALDEBURGH (3.30pm - 6.30pm Moot Hall)

Saturday 8 – LOWESTOFT (10am - 12.30 Royal Green), NORWICH (3.30pm - 7.30pm The Forum)

Sunday 9 – GRESSENHALL (10am - 1pm Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse), CROMER (4pm - 7pm The Pier)

Monday 10 – KING'S LYNN (10.30am - 1pm Vancouver  Quarter shoping area), HUNSTANTON (3.30pm - 6.30pm The Green)

 

For more information about the tour, and to see clips of archive films from around the region, visit www.archivealive.org. 

Bringing archive alive:

On Screen

A series of delightful, themed productions comparing and contrasting our valuable social history and heritage of the two regions. Screened on a variety of digital media platforms at venues in both rural and urban communities, these films will reach a wider audience to both inform and entertain.

 

Online

A bi-lingual website, www.archivealive.org, brings the history of East Anglia and Upper Normandy alive through a moving image timeline of film from as far back as 1896 showcasing events, places and people captured on film over the decades. Also, in line with fast moving technology, all content on the website is fully compatbile with mobile and tablet viewing.

 

In Education

For students of all ages, the project will build on HEART's work in education to ensure access to archive footage for inspiration, interaction and understanding of the culture and identity of our two regions.

 

Funding:

Approved for a European Regional Development Fund grant over three years by the European Union's INTERREG IVA France (Channel) - England cross-border European cooperation Programme 2007-2013, the digital networks and cultural exchanges created by the project will form a lasting legacy and an increased cultural understanding of our filmic heritage.

 

Contact:

For more information on the Digital Heritage Project please contact Jane Jarvis, the project manager via email on janejarvis@heritagecity.org

Supported by HM Treasury's Invest to Save Budget