Digitising the Past - Video
In this short film we celebrate our long term relationship with the UK's National Archives (see their website).
Follow the step-by-step and meticulous process of selection, preservation and digitisation of materials from the UK government's official archive: from paper archive to Archives Direct. Materials selected are for 'Apartheid South Africa' and for the forthcoming 'Colonial America'.
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Featuring newly released documents from The National Archives, UK, the latest instalment in the AM Archives Direct series, "Apartheid South Africa, module IV: Resistance, Sanctions and Reform, 1981-1988," offers an unparalleled exploration of the UK's interaction with South Africa during a pivotal era in the apartheid regime.
AM's new AV resource, sourced from Nasreen Munni Kabir's private collection, contains unedited interviews with Indian film personalities from the 'Golden Age' of Hindi cinema. With over 70 hours of footage and 130 film posters from the British Film Institute, the interviews offer unique insights into Hindi cinema and its film-making process.