"Do they realise that in 50 or 100 years the films that are being made now will be curiosities... all of which are of value to the present generation, but how much more will they be to the men and women of the future?" (Views and Film Index, 1906). In the late 1990s, the Yorkshire Media Consortium was set up as a result of an innovative YFA/National Lottery/Arts Council/Yorkshire Television collaboration from 1997 to 2000, which commissioned 37 new programmes from community filmmakers across the region. It was designed to give independent filmmakers freedom to reflect the concerns of local communities and people across the region, while also creating a valuable new resource, a record of life a century on from the first pioneers of the moving image. The resulting collection encourages individual voices to emerge from across Yorkshire and enables today's audiences to glimpse into people's homes and lives at a key moment in history at the turn of the millennium.