Performance of Richard Burton, in a video on rugby in Wales, is among the half-million films available in a new broadcast archive.
There are audio recordings from 1930, television broadcasts from the 1950s, and the first Welsh-language programming to air on S4C following its inception in 1982.
The Welsh Broadcast Archive Centre will be located in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, inside the National Library of Wales.
It’s the first archive of its kind in the United Kingdom.
It is the first time the public has had access to more than a century’s worth of broadcasts from BBC Wales, ITV Wales, and S4C and has been described as “an audio-visual chronicle of Welsh history.”
The project manager, Einion Gruffudd, described it as innovative.
“Nothing like this has ever occurred before in the United Kingdom, where all the broadcasters of a nation come together.”
Over 250,000 goods are already available, with 500,000 anticipated within the next year.
The database also includes Welsh heavyweight boxer Tommy Farr’s 1937 bout against Joe Louis in New York, which was the first live transmission from the other side of the Atlantic.
Director Rhian Gibson stated that “boxes upon boxes,” stacked to the roof, had begun arriving for cataloging and sorting.
The website will be accessible to the public beginning on March 27; however, in order to view or listen to the content, users will have to travel to either the national library or one of the “clip corners” located throughout Wales.
They will be located at Carmarthenshire Archives, West Glamorgan Archives, Wales Millennium Centre, Conwy Culture Centre, Gwynedd Archives Caernarfon, Llanwst Library, and South Wales Miners Library.
The archive was awarded 4.75 million pounds by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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