Wessex Film & Sound Archive

WFSA holds over 22,000 cinefilms and video recordings, and over 16,000 sound recordings. The collection includes items from a variety of sources, each offering a unique insight into the region’s past.

The collection includes Cinefilm relating to the region. It also includes our collections of professional, amateur, and documentary film. There is research, advertising and newsreel films of local interest, from 1897 onwards.

We have sound recordings reflecting life in the area. This includes oral history, local radio, gramophone discs and local music tapes, and digital audio files.

More from Film Hub South West

Programming as a Creative Practice (During a Pandemic)

Megan Mitchell of Matchbox Cine Club, reflects and reports back following their enrollment on a Open City Documentary Festival and UCL short course, attended with a bursary from Film Hub South West.

Blogs

Script Development Lab 2021: Meet the Participants

BFI NETWORK South West are pleased to present our participants for the Script Development Lab 2021. 8 participants were selected from 110+ applications - here you can learn more about each individual.

Training

News Directions

New Directions is a programme supporting archive film events which retrace the historic steps that have brought the UK to its current political and cultural crossroads.

Funding

Members’ Meet-Up

Events

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Watershed is the Lead Film Hub Organisation for Film Hub South West, part of the BFI Film Audience Network.

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