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We have in the archive 135,000 films, and each film preserves a unique story that's just waiting to be told. We're getting actual people's interviews, actual people's words, actual. Like reporting of the news at that time by knowing what people were doing back then and knowing what

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people were saying back then will definitely inform you going forward and also may inspire you as to how you can make change for the better and what mistakes to avoid. You can search through our films online using our website. It's really easy to find a film.

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If, however, you're not finding exactly what you want, we have tens of thousands of films which have not been digitized yet. You can also search through them online using a keyword search. And we will digitize them for you. The library retrieval system is an automated storage

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and retrieval system. There is a request function on that website. They click that link. They submit their request, and it makes the machine move and bring out a bid. Currently there are over 950,000 items. In all of these bins, the television archive has well over 100,000

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items stored in film cans or boxes where silver items are in one big box. I've spoken to students in the cinema department, um. Who are are are really excited about working with archival material. I, I see archival material used, you know, of course in filmmaking projects,

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but I've seen it increasingly used in some of my students' work that they're doing where even just presenting still images from some film material that they encountered either at the, you know, a place like the barrier television Archive or. And other sources, filmmakers and students, they're

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trying to work with history, but they also need to tell a story to connect with the audience, and using film is a very good way to do that on a gut level. The the sound and the vision, it's an emotional way of relating to history.