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Academic Projects and Research Work Using the ArchiveThe archive has established relationships with University of Wales Aberystwyth, University of Wales Bangor and University of Wales Newport, mainly through their various film studies departments (International Film School Wales in the case of Newport), which have all been visited by the Archive for talks and presentations. Students at the University of Wales Aberystwyth Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies regularly visit the archive for introductory presentations on the collection, and many make use of the archive’s off-air television recordings to aid their studies. The archive also gives annual talks to students on the University's post graduate Archive Administration course. Previous academic research based on the archive’s holdings has included a study of amateur filmmaking in Wales. Recent post graduate use of the collection includes the use of silent film by Welsh College of Music and Drama students as the basis of film score composition projects, and viewing and by students writing theses on film and television history. The discovery of the film ‘The Life Story of David Lloyd George’ (1918) was the stimulus for a book of essays by historians, archivists and composers on the film’s making and disappearance, its restoration and bringing to the screen in 1996. ‘David Lloyd George: the Movie Mystery’ (University of Wales Press, 1988), is co-edited by the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales’s Research Officer Dave Berry and Simon Horrocks, lecturer at University of Wales Lampeter. Dave Berry has also written the definitive book on Welsh film history ‘Wales and Cinema – the first Hundred years’ (University of Wales Press, 1996). He is currently engaged in research on the lost films and silent cinema of Wales. |
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