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The North West Film
Archive has been providing a public film archive
service to the three counties of Greater
Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire since 1977.
However, for historical reasons, the five boroughs
of Merseyside (Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens,
Sefton and Wirral) have been outside the remit of
any regional film archive since 1986.
Thanks to new
funding from North West Vision and the Merseyside
Archive Liaison Group, and continuing support from
Manchester Metropolitan University, the first steps
have been taken in addressing this situation and
integrating film and video relating to Merseyside
into the North West Film Archive's
collection.
Between August and
December 2005 the North West Film Archive conducted
a survey of moving image collections held in
Merseyside. A total of 92 collections consisting of
over 12,000 items of film and video were included
in the survey and an additional five collections
have been added to the database since the initial
survey period.
All of these
collections are now searchable via the Merseyside
Survey Database. This is a collection-level
database that provides a description of the
probable content of each collection. For further
information about any of the collections on the
database, and on how to access material from them,
please contact the North West Film
Archive.
Search
the Merseyside database of nearly 100 collections
and over 12,000 items
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