Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 07/01/2014 - 12:37
The Royal Commonwealth Society Film Collection contains twenty-one original amateur films made primarily in Africa, South and South East Asia, Canada, Europe, Jamaica and the US. It also contains viewing copies of three Ministry of Information and government-commissioned films. The films have been recently digitized, catalogued and researched and are now available for viewing on Streaming Media Service, University of Cambridge, at http://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1532657
A special lunch-time seminar is being organized on Wednesday 29th January 2014 to launch the collection and present key visual records, photographs and newly digitized films, held by the Royal Commonwealth Collection, Cambridge University Library.