To support the BFI’s ambitious project Britain on Film, which premiered this summer, Ocean’s nationwide portfolio of digital screens have been airing never before seen archived footage of British life.
The archived clips relevant to the local region have been broadcast in London, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow throughout August.
Ocean marketing director Richard Malton said: “Britain on Film is a superbly intimate portrait of the diversity of British life revealed through professional and amateur footage of vanished landscapes, urban and rural communities. Ocean’s screens will put this content right back into the heart of the communities where it was originally filmed, through short clips of newsreels, advertisements and home movies, creating a deep link between the past and present of the country.”
The full length films can be viewed on the BFI Player, giving everybody in the UK access to search for and watch thousands of film and TV titles about where they live, grew up, went to school, their family, friends – or any subject of interest.