Launched in 2000, Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive spans from 1897 to the present day and currently contains an ever-expanding catalogue of 13,000 items. It comprises material from a variety of depositors including feature films, sport, documentaries, animation, amateur footage, light entertainment, and a significant proportion of broadcast material from the UTV Archive.
Model Car World Record Attempt
(Six Tonight)
A look at competitive remote-controlled car jumping.
Ronan Kelly reports for the Six Tonight local news programme as he interviews members of the East Antrim Buggy Club. They are attempting to set a new world record for the long jump with their remote-controlled cars.
We are told that the Record Breakers TV programme had recognised a previous record set in England, even if it wasn't officially recognised by the Guinness Book of Records. However, the governing body of the model car world, the BRCA, had assured the competitors that they would recognise any new record set.
Ronan talks to some of the young contenders for the record and one tells him that his model car is worth between £300 and £400 - a princely sum back in 1989. Stephen Hill from Glengormley is the most successful of those taking part on the day but you will need to watch the clip to see if he succeeded in setting a new record.
Six Tonight was the nightly early evening news programme for Ulster Television, starting in the late 1980s and was effectively a rebranding of the previous show, Good Evening Ulster.
The extraordinary, the absurd and the downright weird combine in this collection of reports from UTV’s nightly Good Evening Ulster news programme.
Despite the often bleak aspect of local news in Northern Ireland during the decades relating to The Troubles, ordinary - and sometimes extraordinary - life continued on. This series of some of the more off-the-wall reports from the UTV news archives shows the citizens of Northern Ireland engaging in unusual schemes, fundraisers, pastimes and humorous events.
From Earl Bird attempting to set a new world record for non-stop yodelling to a nuclear bunker disco, from a pub with no beer to a canine snooker referee, you’ll find this collection full to the brim with the odd, the eccentric and the full-on weird.
