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The South West Film & Television Archive has an extensive collection of news, current affairs and documentary output from BBC South West and regional independent broadcasters Westward Television and TSW – Television South West Limited dating from 1961 to 1992. The vast number of news and documentary programmes produced, cover nearly every conceivable aspect of life in the South West. Items in the collection illustrate many of the issues of importance to everyday life in the region such as farming, industry, activities around the coast, gardening, village life and cultural issues. Many items also touch on the amusing or unusual stories of life in the Westcountry, examples include film of the Beatles in Plymouth in 1964, features on a 1960s disco, a local deportment class and an item on a man who drank 32 eggs in one go for a bet. This news item investigates a new fashion for low cut dresses, with vox pops from the people of Truro. Regional television is rich and varied in its content and coverage and is greatly underdeveloped as a research area for media analysis. Other examples of regional television output in the collection include items and documentaries such as on St Ives based artist 'Barbara Hepworth' (1968). |
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