Posted in Events, General, Museums on March 12, 2008 | No Comments »
On 22nd February a new museum, the Movieum, opened at County Hall in London. It claims to take visitors behind the scenes of the British film industry through its use of moving image artefacts to chart the production process. The Movieum of London website describes itself in these terms
‘The Movieum is a movie museum that [...]
Posted in Events on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Following on from MeCCSA’s Future of Screen Heritage symposium held in September 2007 at Roehampton, this one day conference (supported by the BUFVC) on Saturday 15 March 2008, University of Leeds seeks to ‘reassesses aspects of the institutional and intellectual links which exist between our film archives and our universities, and explores how they might [...]
Posted in Events on November 13, 2007 | No Comments »
A report by Ian MacDonald, on the symposium held at Roehampton University on 22 September to discuss the future of screen heritage in the UK, is now available from the MeCCSA website.
Posted in Events, General on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »
The UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage takes place this Saturday, the 27th October with a variety of activities taking place across the globe designed to focus international attention on the importance of audiovisual material within human memory, culture and identity. In his downloadable message, the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, has called for [...]
