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Screen Search FashionAn Online Resource for
Fashion DesignJane Devine Mejia Malcolm
McInnes
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Screen Archive South East

• Based at the University of Brighton
• Regional screen media archive, covering Surrey,
  East West Sussex and Kent
• Collecting films made in the South East by local
  people
• Material dating from 1896 to the present

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Screen Archive South Easts collections

• amateur films
• home movies
• films made by companies, cine-clubs, charities
  and other organisations
• documentaries
• short fiction films

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Storage, preservation digitisation
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Online access Screen Archive South East website
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Screen Search Online Catalogue
http//www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive/
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Screen Search Online Catalogue sample record
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Screen Search Fashion
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Visual textual learning
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Understanding context

• 1930s menswear

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Learning from the Archive
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Student tutor responses

• Students liked viewing events from real peoples
  lives
• Its nice to be able to see the garments worn by
  the people of the day, rather than in a still
  image or hanging in a museum.
• Some were inspired to make their own films as a
  way of exploring ideas about movement.
• A few were uncomfortable with archive films and
  not sure how to approach them as research
  material.
• A tutor commented a wonderful resource - the
  immediacy of non-fiction film is extraordinary.'

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Ongoing value to HE and FE

• UK institutions
• International institutions

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QUESTIONS?