The Moving Image Archive is a collection of Scottish film and video recordings at the National Library of Scotland, held at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotland. There are over 46,000 items within the collection, and over 2,600 of these are publicly available online at the library's Moving Image Catalogue.
The Scottish Film Archive was established by the Scottish Film Council in 1976 with the aid of the Government's Job Creation Scheme and became a permanent feature of the council's activities in 1978.[1]
What was to become the Moving Image Archive came to the National Library of Scotland in 2007, though it was called the Scottish Screen Archive at the time. Scottish Screen was established in 1997 and worked in the areas of production, development, location assistance, exhibition and festivals, training, media education and preserving the heritage and history of the moving image; developing, encouraging and promoting every aspect of film, television and new media in Scotland. Working with the Scottish Government, their goal was to establish Scotland as a major screen production centre and project Scottish culture to the world.
It was announced in January 2006 that Scottish Screen would amalgamate with Scottish Arts Council to form the newly created Creative Scotland. Creative Scotland took over these functions in 2010.[2] The NLS renamed the collection in 2015.
The main purpose of the National Library of Scotland's Moving Image Archive is to locate, preserve and provide access to moving images reflecting Scottish 20th and 21st century culture and history. In addition the Archive collects a wide range of written and photographic materials relating to the development of cinema exhibition and film production in Scotland over the past 100 years. The Archive was originally premised in Hillington with limited facilities, however it relocated in 2016 to the Library's new public centre for digital and moving image collections at Glasgow's Kelvin Hall.[3]
В основном научно-популярная коллекция Архива на сегодняшний день насчитывает более 46 000 единиц хранения [4], включая документальные, кинохронику, короткометражные, образовательные, рекламные и рекламные фильмы, любительскую и профессиональную продукцию. Материал в основном представлен пленками и видеокассетами толщиной 9,5 и 8 мм, а также меньшими коллекциями. Коллекция была создана в основном за счет пожертвований всех секторов общества, промышленности, телерадиовещательных организаций, местных властей и представителей общественности, при этом ядро материалов было получено из бывшей Центральной кинобиблиотеки Шотландии и Комитета по фильмам Шотландии.