Title
Scottish Film & Television Archive Collection
Reference
SCO
Production date
1960 - 1989
Creator
- Scottish Film & Television ArchiveBiographyBiography
The Scottish Film & Television Archive was created in 1976 when the Scottish Film Council was awarded Government funding to identify a collection of films. This project was headed by Archive Curator Janet McBain from 1976-2011.
In 1997 the Scottish Film Council merged with Scottish Film Production, Scottish Screen Locations and Scottish Broadcast and Film Training Trust. This combined group of organisations became “Scottish Screen” and the collection then became known as the “Scottish Screen Archive”.
In 2003 Scottish Screen launched an online moving image catalogue and in 2007 the Scottish Screen Archive became part of the National Library of Scotland. In September 2015 the name of “Scottish Screen Archive” changed again to “National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive”.
Scope and Content
The Scottish Film & Television Archive is comprised of film posters, stills and promotional materials organised by film dating from the 1960s-1980s.
There are a wide range of films represented by these materials. The films in the collection range from Disney films such as “Pete’s Dragon” (1977) and a special joint showing of “Sleeping Beauty” and “Treasure Island” to live action musicals like “The Sound of Music” (1965) to X-rated films such as “Love Play” and “Swedish Style”. There are also materials relating to Shakespeare films, including “Othello” (1965), literary adaptations such as “Under Milk Wood” (1972) and film of the Bolshoi and the Royal Ballets.
This collection also includes film posters by W. E. Berry Ltd which have been organised together into a separate box.
Extent
7 bankers boxes
Physical description
The collection is in a fair condition.
Language
English
Archival history
Posters by W. E. Berry Ltd have been moved into a separate box.
Level of description
TOP
Repository name
National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
Associated people and organisations
- W. E. Berry LtdBiographyBiography
W. E. Berry Ltd was a significant producer and printer of film posters based in Bradford, England. The company was set up in 1888 at 13 Currer Street, Bradford, by William Berry. Berry's son William Edward Berry (W. E. Berry) took over in the early 1900s. After a split from his father's business partner, William Edward Berry set up his own business as W. E. Berry Ltd.
During the 1920s, W. E. Berry was introduced to Fred Martin at Paramount and the pair started a business relationship that cemented W. E. Berry's position as one of the leading producers and distributors of film posters.
Notable litho posters from the company's early period of production were for railway companies and for Bertram Mills Circus. Once the landscape "quad" was established as the standard British size for film posters, W. E. Berry was one of a handful of printers with sizeable market power in this business. The company printed most of Rank's overseas posters and had major contracts for Disney and Colombia.
Some of the films W. E. Berry Ltd produced posters for included The Ten Commandments (1923), Wild Beauty (1946), Oliver Twist (1948), It's Not Cricket (1949), Carry on up the Khyber (1968), The Way of the Dragon (1972), Star Wars (1977), and Flash Gordon (1980).
By the late 1990s, W. E. Berry Ltd was a flourishing business employing around 140 people. However, financial losses in 2000 and 2003 put the company under substantial strain and the company went into administration and ultimately closed in 2004.
Conditions governing access
Access is given in accordance with the NMeM access policy. Material from this collection is available to researchers through the museum’s Insight facility.
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied of items in the collection, provided that the copying process used does not damage the item or is not detrimental to its preservation. Copies will be supplied in accordance with the NMeM’s terms and conditions for the supply and reproduction of copies, and the provisions of any relevant copyright legislation
External document
System of arrangement
This archive is currently being processed and a system of arrangement will be added to this field when it has been established.