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WFSA holds over 22,000 cinefilms and video recordings, and over 13,000 sound recordings. Themes include

• Professional and newsreel film of local events and personalities, lots of military subjects and maritime coverage, shown in regional cinemas and halls
• Amateur film and video, showing many different aspects of life in the region, often not covered by professionals
• Research and advertising film produced by local businesses, such as Vosper Thornycroft, British Maritime Technology, Portsea Island Co-operative Society, Southern Electric and Huntley & Palmers
• Local radio tapes
• Oral history recordings
• Videos reflecting life in the region both past and present
• Gramophone discs and tapes of local interest, including those featuring the Bournemouth Orchestras
• Much of the original film recording the raising of the 'Mary Rose
• A selection of local TV and radio programmes from 1958 to the present day

We welcome cinefilm, sound recordings, video recordings, digital recordings, equipment and manuals as a gift, on long-term loan or loan for copying.

• • Early newsreel and locally produced films
  • British Army
  • Royal Navy and Royal Marines
  • Other Maritime Sources
  • Aviation
  • The Home Front 1939-1945
  • Civic events and local activities
  • Millennium community videos
  • Towns and villages including rural life
  • Family life including holidays
  • The Church
  • Educational sources
  • Hospitals
• • Public utilities and government agencies
  • Local government departments
  • Business sources (except maritime)
  • Commercial films and videos of local interest
  • Land transport
  • Gramophone discs
  • Music
  • Local radio including hospital radio
  • Oral history
  • Nature and Wildlife
  • Archive recordings by WFSA staff
  • Viewing copies of films held elsewhere