Productions Archive
- Newsreels and Other Productions
The Newsreels and Productions in the FilmSoc Archive
Over the last 50 years a large collection of films have been
shot by the members of the Film Society. Until recent years these
used to be compiled into 'Newsreels' every 6-12 months, consisting
of a few drama productions together with documentaries and college
news events. Also most of the larger productions exist as separate
reels.
Newsreels
The newsreels are sequentially numbered from 1 in 1951 to 77
in 1987. The catalog number for each newsreel is 0xx where xx
is simply the newsreel number.
A selection of Newsreels have been recently transferred to video:
20 - Spring 1959 - Zebra crossing section
22 - Spring 1960 - Extracts fro the first 21 newsreels
23 - Autumn 1960 - 32' inc.
26 - Spring 1962 - 16'45"
37 - Autumn 1967 - 32'
38 - Spring 1968 - 32'
44 - Spring 1971 - 19'30"
46 - Spring 1972 - 15'30"
56 - Spring 1977 - inc. Golddiggers
62 - Spring 1980 - 30'
66 - Spring 1982 -
74 - Spring 1986 -
75 - Autumn 1986 - 27'
77 - Spring 1987 - 24'
Christie extract
The Filmsoc Season Ticket Ad - Madam
The archive contains the rushes and magnetic sound mixes for
each production, so overall there are hundreds of separate 16mm
reels - each cataloged with a unique code that identifies the
producion and reel type (eg optical sound print master 24fps).
The list below gives some of the main productions
To decode the full catalog number (as written on the film cans)
use the following rules. The code number has 9 digits/charaters
eg 038C-PSO-01^ the digits are delfined as follows:
0->2 .... 3 figure production number ( see list below)
