• Welcome

    ... to the all-new YFA website, where we’ve combined over 60 hours of moving image content from YFA Online with lots more information about our collections and activities.

    We’d like to thank the Screen Heritage UK Programme for helping us to bring you more films from our collections, and a big thank you to all our audiences and users who continue to support our work – we hope you’ll find lots of new material to watch, share and enjoy!

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  • Yorkshire Shorts: Winter

    ‘Winter’ is one of a series of four short films from the YFA which have been touring independent cinemas across Yorkshire.

    'Yorkshire Shorts:Seasons' has been drawn from home movie collections held by the YFA, and has been a great opportunity to take a different, more artistic approach to interpreting and curating the film footage.

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  • Film Shows

    YFA runs an annual programme of community film shows which are available to groups across Yorkshire. Presentations feature a selection of fascinating footage from our collections, showcasing over a century of Yorkshire life on film, and including local material wherever possible.

    Venues include village halls, pubs and restaurants, churches and even railways stations...

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  • Contrast/brilliance* North Yorkshire on Film

    Contrast/brilliance* celebrated North Yorkshire’s rich film heritage with a festival of events brought to you by Screen Yorkshire, Cine Yorkshire and YFA.

    With more venues on board than ever, the YFA Village Paradiso touring programme has been a great success, and for those of you who have asked to see the promotional video again, here it is!

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YFA Selects

HARROGATE: BOARDROOM OF THE NORTH
1970-1971
1049
This is a promotional film made to encourage new businesses, especially those based in London and other southern cities, to set...
TINKER, TAYLOR . . ? WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY
1941
4074
This is a film made by W G Gregory for the Education Committee of the City of Sheffield to help young adults choose a career by...
SKATING AND SNOW
1936-1953
2660
Made by a Sheffield based amateur filmmaker, K.G. Tofield, Skating and Snow is a collection of four films which capture the...

YFA Innovations

  • Memory Bank

    Memory Bank is a ground breaking project, developing therapeutic uses for archive film footage in care settings to improve communication, the environment and wellbeing for older people affected by memory disorders such as dementia, as well as low mood and anxiety.

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  • Yorkshire Calendar

    Every week, Yorkshire's film heritage is brought to life thanks to our exciting new web application, featuring footage from major events and magic moments in days gone by. The Yorkshire Calendar already features on a number of Yorkshire websites, and could appear on yours...

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  • Video Postcards

    People love sending postcards, so YFA are using new technologies to take this a step further! Why not send a video postcard - by email or smart phone - featuring byte sized clips of archive footage of destinations around Yorkshire?

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  • Family Film Tree

    Coming soon! Family Film Tree is an interactive genealogy website using archive footage to illustrate all aspects of life - places, people, work and play, wartime and peacetime, over the past one hundred years.

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