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Kev
10-31-2006, 04:38 PM
A FILM tracking Liverpool through the last century

will be shown on the city centre Big Screen over the next two weeks.

Archive footage of the city's changing landscape through the Blitz, post-war

years and 1960s music scene has been examined by researchers at Liverpool university.

The City in Film team worked with independent film maker Angus

Tilston to produce the 12-minute footage.

It portrays a journey through time from Liverpool city centre in 1900 to the present day and will be shown

on the BBC screen in Clayton Square five times a day for the fortnight.

The project explores the relationship between the city's architecture and

the moving image, and aims to create an online database of Liverpool films for cinema goers, producers and researchers.

Films located so far include

footage of the overhead railway, and St Georges Plateau in 1897.

Researchers are keen to get public reaction to the film and see if anyone recognises

people featured in the footage.

They are also encouraging people to come forward with any footage they may have.

* Anyone with information

should call 0151-794 2631 or e-mail cityinfilm@liverpool.ac.uk

Howie
09-17-2009, 12:07 AM
Liverpool?s film history goes online
Jun 16 2009
Liverpool Echo

LIVERPOOL?S appearances in more than a century of films have been brought together in a new online catalogue (http://www.liv.ac.uk/lsa/cityinfilm/catalogue.html).

Researchers at the University of Liverpool were due to launch the public database at its Victoria Museum & Gallery today.

The resource includes information on footage shot from the late 19th-century to the present day, making it easier for film makers and historians to track it down.

The information is currently being used to create a digital map that will be included among the exhibits in the new Museum of Liverpool when it opens next year.

Dr Les Roberts, who worked on the two-year research project, said: ?The idea was to bring all the archive material into one reference so people would be able to research different archives by going to just one website.

?It covers around 1,700 titles.?

Source: Liverpool Echo (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2009/06/16/liverpool-s-film-history-goes-online-100252-23887346/)