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The irony is that the @UTV archive has become far less accessible under the auspices of @NIScreen, @ITV and @CommunitiesNI.
Since the move from Havelock House, researchers no longer have free access to footage held on formats such as 16mm film and analogue videotape. 1/ https://twitter.com/r3storestudios/status/1298953503784816640
Since the move from Havelock House, researchers no longer have free access to footage held on formats such as 16mm film and analogue videotape. 1/ https://twitter.com/r3storestudios/status/1298953503784816640
Researchers must identify material blind and pay for it to be made 'accessible'. And they can only view it if @ITV will let them.
The remarkable thing is that @PRONI_DFC has equipment which could be used to give researchers safe access to such content. 2/
The remarkable thing is that @PRONI_DFC has equipment which could be used to give researchers safe access to such content. 2/
The other remarkable thing is that @ITV should have been given such power of veto. The company is so skittish that I can't get permission to publish my old research.
There seems to be little willingness to improve matters. 3/
There seems to be little willingness to improve matters. 3/
I am a civil servant these days and I have volunteered on several occasions to move to @PRONI_DFC and help them with the @UTV archive.
There was surprising resistance to this idea. I was even told that the service did not recognise my PhD because I was in the wrong grade.
There was surprising resistance to this idea. I was even told that the service did not recognise my PhD because I was in the wrong grade.
