Huntley Film Archives

Last week we looked at 9.5mm, today's Huntley Tuesday Tutorial moves on to the iconic amateur gauges of 8mm and Super 8. Many's the time you hear a famous film director recounting their early experience of film making on a Super 8 home movie camera, but what makes Super 8 so super..? Enjoy! https://youtu.be/24LkTDDJKco

It's Tuesday Tutorial time again at Huntley Film Archives! We're wrenching ourselves away from the Steenbeck and moving on to film identification. Today we take a look at how to identify 9.5mm small gauge film and tell you a little about the history of how this tiny celluloid wonder came about. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/T5u6y_Px5hc

It's that time of the week again -Tuesday tutorial from Huntley Film Archives! So far we've covered how to clean your film, get it the right way round and attach leader using a joiner. Now, for all you lovers of retro machinery that looks like it belongs in a 1950s Sci-Fi movie, today we show you how to lace your film through the picture and optical sound gate of a Steenbeck so you can actually watch it. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/CNWpy6YIo34

A very happy new year from us all at Huntley film archives! It's a chilly and damp winter day here, so we thought we'd take a tour of our film vaults and tell you a bit about how we store our celluloid and tape collections and the importance of keeping an eye on the weather...https://youtu.be/YqcOHDOptoE Don't forget to keep an eye out for our future Tuesday tutorials!

It's Tutorial Tuesday at #HuntleyFilmArchives! Today we look at preparing your film with leader so you can run it on a #Steenbeck or a film scanner. We also show you how to use a #joiner to make a tape join. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/Dfui4HjIKs4 and https://youtu.be/C4WzwccSPIQ

Learn how to clean film in our new archive training video. Keep a look out as we post more tutorials...

Huntley Film Archives has launched our new website - www.huntleyarchives.com which allows commercial users to purchase clips online

We have just uncovered a lovely home-made film spool. This 9.5mm spool is cut from a wartime Ministry of Food National Dried Milk tin. Milk powder and films the same storage requirements - a cool, dry place!

We have been invited to submit a bid towards funding for a film scanner. Two days ago we wrote and asked a range of industry professionals: 'Huntley Film Archives has been invited to apply for funding towards the purchase of a film scanner. As part of the process it would be helpful if I could gather comments either for against the proposal as this will make our case to the funder stronger. The scanner is the Vintage Cloud Steenbeck and ownership of the Steenbeck will enable... us to provide clients with 2K or 4K scans and a faster service than we are currently able to. I would be hugely grateful if you could drop me a line in reply saying whether this would help you and that you would be more likely to use an archive providing this facility as this is what the industry now requires.'
We have been completely blown away by the enthusiastic and warm response to our request. Typical of more than 30 replies is this from David Seevers:
'I’m glad to hear that you have the possibility of getting a Vintage Cloud Steenbeck scanner, which will enable you to provide higher quality video files more quickly. I think that will make a substantial difference, for researchers like myself, working on fast-turnaround projects, scrambling to get master material in at the end of an edit. Your archives are undoubtedly first class, and I’m sure that speedier delivery in higher resolution will enable you to keep up with the competition.'
A huge thank you the everyone who is supporting us in our bid. We are an archive that is small in funds, but big in content and hope to be able to share this content more widely soon.
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Our website www.huntleyarchives.com now has over 20,000 films ready to view

More than 70 years ago this was how one New York store dealt with snow - a heated sidewalk - www.huntleyarchives.com/film/94362

Billy Graham preaching - www.huntleyarchives.com/film/98355

Arthur Balfour around time of the Balfour Declaration -www.huntleyarchives.com/film/97344

1970's drug abuse in the Royal Navy - https://youtu.be/8I_mjIdslQQ

Latest Newsletter contains a piece written by Canadian intern, Maggie - http://bit.ly/2l3Tk7F

Dean Rusk on importance of diplomacy. The U.S. did not resort to nuclear weapons to resolve the Korean conflict of the early 1950's - www.huntleyarchives.com/film/99321

Jerry Lewis has died. Here is the trailer for his 1952 parachutist film Jumping Jacks with Dean Martin - www.huntleyarchives.com/film/31503

Just discovered www.huntleyarchives.com/film/99065 of 1934 England-Australia MacRobertson air-race in India. Great film of winning aircraft Grosvenor House G-ACSS

Hawick Riding in 1914 www.huntleyarchives.com/film/90861