A Most Important Week

From the collection of

The North East Film Archive, based at Teesside University, save and celebrate the screen heritage of the North East of England. At the heart of their collection are films made by, and for, local people, reflecting and representing the communities, places and distinctive identity of the region. Together with their sister archive in Yorkshire they form the Yorkshire and North East Film Archive, a unique pan-regional resource with over 75,000 moving image artefacts, part of York St John University. They unlock the collections for artists, academics, curators, programmers, researchers, and producers to reveal compelling stories from the vaults. www.yfanefa.com

A Most Important Week (Briefing)

North East Film Archive
Newcastle upon Tyne
1984-11-23
Sound

Does investment in youth pay off, or is a tourist jaunt a trip too far? These youngsters have a lot to prove and a lot to gain.

The '80s in the North East

For a phoenix to rise there must first be ashes: these films capture the hungry years when hope was hard to find.

The once-thriving powerhouse of Northern industry was stripped back during the 1980s as the region lost coal mines, shipyards, steelworks and many more employers besides. The decline of the North East economy was particularly hard on school-leavers, who had fewer skills and no work experience to fall back on in an increasingly bleak jobs market.

10 videos in this collection

Briefing [24/05/1982]

Newcastle upon Tyne
1982-05-24

Briefing [21/02/1983]

Newcastle upon Tyne
1983-02-21

Briefing [05/12/1983]

Newcastle upon Tyne
1983-12-05

Social Workers

Newcastle upon Tyne
1984-01-23

Briefing [20/02/1984]

Gateshead
1984-02-20

Briefing [09/04/1984]

York
1984-04-09