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Keyword
search
If you have a
particular subject, person or place of interest you
can conduct a keyword search by entering relevant
terms or a key phrase, such as 'trams' or
'manchester airport', in the keywords box. This
will search the individual news item descriptions.
You can enter a single term for a broad search, or
several words to narrow your search down. If too
many results are returned for you to look through,
use the 'Back' button in your browser to return to
the keyword box and add another relevant word to
refine your search.
For example:
The keyword football returned too many
results for you to look through, so you could
return to the keyword box and enter football
manchester united to limit your search to
footage of a particular team.
If your search is
unsuccessful, or has too few hits, try thinking of
alternative words, e.g., instead of the word
seaside, try beaches or
seafront. It
is also helpful to use concrete words rather than
abstract terms, e.g., for images conveying 'love',
try entering terms such as weddings or
dancing.
Searching
by transmission date/day
If you want a
specific Look North news programme, the catalogue
can be searched by date of transmission by entering
the date in dd/mm/yy format. You can also search
for a date range, for example 01/12/75...31/12/75
would bring up every date for which we have news
film in December 1975. The catalogue can also be
searched by day of transmission, for example if you
were interested in only news items that were
broadcast at the start of each week, you could
limit your search to Mondays.
Searching
by film item number
Each individual
news item is numbered according to the order in
which it was broadcast on the programme. There are
on average about five news items per day/programme.
Hence, news item number 1 is the first item
broadcast of the day, 2 the second and so on. If
you want to find out what type of story was
broadcast first each day, for example, you can
search for news item number 1.
Searching
by
producer/introducer/newsreader
If you know the
name of a particular BBC Look North Producer,
Introducer or Newsreader, you can enter a name in
the relevant box to return all programmes they
worked on.
How
to take your enquiry further
If, having
searched the online catalogue, you would like to
take your enquiry further, it is important to note
the dates of the news items in which you are
interested. Your enquiry can be submitted using our
Comments
&
Enquiries
form, by email to
n.w.filmarchive@mmu.ac.uk
or by contacting a member of our access team by
telephone 0161-247 3097.
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the
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