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Image and Film Service

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Our image and film service offers high quality digital imagery and footage from across the collection.

The collection covers a wide range of subjects, including archaeology, natural history, fine and decorative arts, world cultures, photography, moving image, social and maritime history, local archives and local studies. Visit our collections pages to find out more.

Contact us for high quality reproductions, research assistance and permission advice. Our experienced team are available to discuss your projects.

The current online selection represents a fraction of the millions of items held by The Box. If you cannot find what you are looking for please choose the format type below to find out how we can assist you.

To select and obtain permission to use items from the collection, choose the format type below where you will find more information on how we can assist you with your enquiry.

“The revenue generated from our image and film service goes to support The Box in its commitment to preserve the city’s cultural collections and share extraordinary stories to explore the pressing issues of our age.”

Image Permissions

The Box holds over two million still images including the photographic collections of the Plymouth Barbican Trust, South West Image Bank, as well as object and archival collections.

Image enquiry form
Image Permissions
Image and Film Service: Plymouth Hoe

Film Permissions

The Moving Image collection is one of the largest regional film archive that includes programme libraries from Westward Television and TSW (Television South West) and many amateur and semi-professional film works transferred to The Box by the South West Film and Television Archive.

Film enquiry form
Film Permissions
Image from a film at the box plymouth

Permissions and Policies

Please read through our policies for information regarding:

  • Sample agreement
  • Copyright
  • Low resolution copies
Permissions and policies

FAQs

Find answers to our commonly asked questions here, including searching our catalogue, file formats, delivery and payment queries.

Some of the collection is available to view/search online via the following platforms:

Please note that our Museum catalogue is currently down for unscheduled maintenance. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this. If you require some advice please contact collections@plymouth.gov.uk.

When searching online here are some tips:

  • Less is more. If this produces too many results gradually add more to your search criteria.
  • Use keywords relevant to the subject of your search rather than full sentences will produce better results.
  • When searching the Archives Catalogue include ‘digital image’ as well as your search item, for example ‘digital image trails’ this will identify all records that have a digital image and relate to trails.

We offer high resolution, 300dpi image files:

  • A5 files have pixel dimensions of 2480 x 1748 pixels
  • A4 have pixel dimensions of 2480 x 3508 pixels
  • A3 have pixel dimensions of 3508 x 3961 pixels

 

These are standard values, but please bear in mind that the end point reproduction size depends on the dimensions of the original.

Larger sizes are available for some of our images, but certain images may need to be photographed or scanned. If this is necessary, we will provide a quotation.

  • We can supply .MP4 files with time-code and The Box logo for evaluation and review purposes.
  • For broadcast quality HD clips, we supply H.264 or P or DNxHD.mxf as clean files, 1920 x 1080 at 25fps. SD footage is typically de-interlaced and upscaled to HD but can be supplied as native if required.

You will be notified in the research report if this is the case. We will provide you with a quotation for digitisation.

If you need content supplied in any other format, contact us with your requirements.

While requests may be subject to resource availability, once we receive the completed enquiry form, we will conduct initial research and copyright due diligence, which may take up to 21 days. The digital file, image or footage, will be sent to you upon receipt of payment and signed agreement.

The revenue generated from our image and film service goes to support The Box in its commitment to preserve the city’s cultural collections and share extraordinary stories to explore the pressing issues of our age.

Permission/supply fees vary depending upon the nature of the project and are based on the rights, territories and duration required. We offer up to one hour of research assistance free of charge per enquiry.

All prices quoted are exclusive of VAT.

Refer to our rate cards for guidance:

Image Rate Card (PDF)

Film Rate Card (PDF)

Please be sure to complete the enquiry form thoroughly and include all relevant project information to ensure that we can provide an accurate quotation.

Yes we do, please contact us for details.

We accept credit/debit card payments through a secure link, which will be provided once terms have been agreed. A VAT receipt can be issued after payment is received.

If you need an invoice to be issued before payment in order to make payment via BACS, an additional £25 + VAT administration fee will be charged.