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Academic Projects and Research Work Using the Archive

The archive has an established relationship with the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia which has a strong reputation for its research and teaching in Film and Television Studies. The Archive complements this with its own regional, national, and international reputation for its collection, conservation and teaching.

The East Anglian Film Archive with the University of East Anglia established the world’s first postgraduate degree in film archiving in 1990.The course is run in conjunction with the Film and Television Studies department and is taught by staff from the archive. Its work has been fundamental to the professional development of the moving image archives and archivists in the UK and the course attracts overseas students each year.

Previous academic research interest into the archive holdings has included investigation into a variety of subjects. Recent work has included for example, postgraduate research on the films of Denis Mitchell, a study of regional influences on Alfred Hitchcock, research into a 1950s / 1960s education authority film library, study of films of Papworth TB Hospital and Village Settlement for a history of medicine conference, research on the agricultural films in the collection by a social history lecturer, a conceptual art project looking at landscape on film, environmental science students working on the ecology of the Fens and the Norfolk Broads, museology students from the University of Essex looking at the use of home movies and the representation of memory for a museum exhibition, and film-making students from a number of colleges using the collection in the creation of new work.