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London Metropolitan Archives

CLAPHAM FILM UNIT


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4599

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CLAPHAM FILM UNIT

Date(s): 2009-2012

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 0.15 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Clapham Film Unit

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Clapham Film Unit, a collective of film-makers, was founded through constitution in November 2007 and registered as a charity on 25 February 2009 with the aim 'to train and equip local people to tell our own stories on film'.

The Unit has organised screenings, hosted work by members, and provided film-making advice to the local community. Projects have included the 'Uganda to London' documentary, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and completed in 2011.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

'UG2LDN', Uganda to London Heritage Lottery Funded oral history project concerning refugee settlers: monthly reports, oral history tape recordings (raw and published DVD), rough log of interviews, photographs, flyers, postcards and T-shirt.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged as follows: LMA/4599/01 PROJECTS

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright is held by the depositor

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in December 2012

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997

Date(s) of descriptions: Added June 2013


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
African diaspora | Migration
Film archives | Audiovisual archives | Archives
Film makers | Artists
Film making | Cinema
Oral history | Historical methods | History
Refugees | Migrants

Personal names

Corporate names
Clapham Film Unit

Places
Clapham | Lambeth | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Uganda | East Africa