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StoryTrails: The People's Map
UNBOXED presents a psychogeographic map of the UK, combining audio storytelling and archive footage with cutting-edge 3D scanning technology to create a new national portrait.
Commissioned for UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK as part of the StoryTrails project, the UK's largest immersive storytelling experience, The People's Map brings to life a psychogeographic representation of 15 UK towns and cities, combining the sort of good old-fashioned storytelling you might hear on the very best radio programmes or podcasts with the latest scanning technologies and 3D models as seen in video games and mobile-augmented reality experiences.
Over 400 stories from local peope and nearly 7,000 scans were captured to create 15 animated 'spatial maps', bespoke to each location and telling stories in new and surprising ways. StoryTrails toured the UK as a pop-up event in summer 2022, visiting 15 different towns and cities.
These interactive maps have been reformatted as individual films that are now available to watch throughout the UK on BFI Player.
The Maps feature archive footage from the Regions and Nations network of public access film archives:
The National Library of Scotland
Northern Ireland’s Screen Digital Film Archive
North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University
Yorkshire and North East Film Archives
Media Archive for Central England at University of Lincoln
The Screen and Sound Archive, The National Library of Wales
Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Film London – London’s Screen Archives
Alongside them we also present some of the original archive films that were incorporated into the maps, as provided to the project by the BFI National Archive.
StoryTrails: The People's Map Newport StoryTrails: The People's Map Newport
Documentary 2022 12 mins Location: Newport/Casnewydd
This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Newport.
StoryTrails: The People's Map Wolverhampton StoryTrails: The People's Map Wolverhampton
Documentary 2022 14 mins Location: Wolverhampton
This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Wolverhampton.
StoryTrails: The People's Map Omagh StoryTrails: The People's Map Omagh
Documentary 2022 15 mins Location: Omagh
This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Omagh.
StoryTrails: The People's Map Slough StoryTrails: The People's Map Slough
Documentary 2022 15 mins Location: Slough
This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Slough.
StoryTrails: The People's Map Dundee StoryTrails: The People's Map Dundee
Documentary 2022 14 mins Location: Dundee
This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Dundee.
StoryTrails: The People's Map Swansea StoryTrails: The People's Map Swansea
Documentary 2022 15 mins Location: Swansea/Abertawe
This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Swansea.
StoryTrails: The People's Map Blackpool StoryTrails: The People's Map Blackpool
Documentary 2022 15 mins Location: Blackpool
This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Blackpool.
Holiday Holiday
Travelogue 1957 18 mins Location: Blackpool
The delights of 1950s Blackpool are vibrantly captured in sunny Kodachrome, in this fondly remembered travelogue from British Transport Films.
Blackpool North Pier (1903) Blackpool North Pier (1903)
Non-Fiction 1902 3 mins Silent Location: North Pier
Edwardian holidaymakers throng to the attractions at Lancashire's premier seaside resort.
StoryTrails: The People's Map Bradford StoryTrails: The People's Map Bradford
Documentary 2022 15 mins Location: Bradford
This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Bradford.
The Bradford Godfather The Bradford Godfather
1976 49 mins Location: Bradford
Meet Mohamed Fazal Hussain, elder statesman and all-round Mr Fixit of Bradford's Muslim community, and a film mogul in the making...
A New Kind of Match A New Kind of Match
Current affairs 1967 26 mins Silent Location: Bradford
Current affairs programme about the Pakistani community in Bradford and the discrimination they face
StoryTrails: The People's Map Dumfries StoryTrails: The People's Map Dumfries
Documentary 2022 13 mins Location: Dumfries
This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Dumfries.
Dumfries Street Scenes Dumfries Street Scenes
Non-Fiction 1910 4 mins Silent Location: Dumfries
These Doonhamers of Dumfries - the 'Queen of the South' - smile for the camera in this 'local topical' film
Loreburn School, Dumfries (c.1901) Loreburn School, Dumfries (c.1901)
Non-Fiction 1901 1 mins Silent Location: Dumfries
Dumfries schoolchildren take their turn in the spotlight.
StoryTrails: The People's Map Lambeth StoryTrails: The People's Map Lambeth
Documentary 2022 15 mins Location: Lambeth
This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Lambeth.
We Are the Lambeth Boys We Are the Lambeth Boys
Documentary 1959 49 mins Location: Kennington
Karel Reisz’s honest depiction of South London teens aimed to challenge the media perception of ‘Teddy Boys’.
South Bank South Bank
1973 5 mins Location: National Theatre
Magnificent monument to the arts or architectural monstrosity? The jury's out on Britain's new National Theatre
StoryTrails: The People's Map Bristol StoryTrails: The People's Map Bristol
Documentary 2022 16 mins Location: Bristol
This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Bristol.
Blitzed Cities of Bristol and Bath Blitzed Cities of Bristol and Bath
War 1942 35 mins Silent Location: Chew Magna
Vivid colour footage of the wartime devastation wreaked on Bristol and Bath - and the barely affected village of Chew Magna.
Panorama of the River Avon to Portishead (1902) Panorama of the River Avon to Portishead (1902)
Non-Fiction 1902 9 mins Silent Location: Portishead
A fine variety of views of the Avon gorge taken from various positions downstream from the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
StoryTrails: The People's Map Lewisham StoryTrails: The People's Map Lewisham
Documentary 2022 18 mins Location: Lewisham
This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Lewisham.
Lewisham's Film Review Lewisham's Film Review
Travelogue 1922 5 mins Silent Location: Lewisham
Journey into a lost London with this exquisitely detailed tour of the shops and street life of 1920s Lewisham.
Joe's Way Joe's Way
Public Information Filler 1975 13 mins Location: Rotherhithe
Road safety film, or warning of the dangers of flared trousers – you decide
StoryTrails: The People's Map Swindon StoryTrails: The People's Map Swindon
Documentary 2022 16 mins Location: Swindon
This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Swindon.
The Building of a Locomotive at Crewe The Building of a Locomotive at Crewe
Non-Fiction 1920 7 mins Silent Location: Swindon
A 1920 mistitled re-release of the construction of a Great Western Railway 'Star' Class locomotive at Swindon.
Men on the Mend Men on the Mend
Documentary 1956 12 mins Location: Swindon
Injured British Rail employees are put on the railroad to health at Swindon Works
StoryTrails: The People's Map Sheffield StoryTrails: The People's Map Sheffield
Documentary 2022 17 mins Location: Sheffield
This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Sheffield.
Clean Air City Clean Air City
Documentary 1973 24 mins Location: Sheffield
Sheffield stops smoking: the story of how a polluted industrial city became the cleanest in Europe
Tram Ride through the City of Sheffield (1902) Tram Ride through the City of Sheffield (1902)
Non-Fiction 1902 5 mins Silent Location: Sheffield
An excellent 'phantom ride' through the heart of Edwardian Yorkshire's 'Steel City'.
StoryTrails: The People's Map Lincoln StoryTrails: The People's Map Lincoln
Documentary 2022 13 mins Location: Lincoln
This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Lincoln.
Employees at Robey's Works, Lincoln (1900) Employees at Robey's Works, Lincoln (1900)
Non-Fiction 1900 2 mins Silent Location: Lincoln
Hoards of workers funnel through the great arched entrance to Robey's works in Lincoln.
Factory Exit in Lincoln (1900) Factory Exit in Lincoln (1900)
Non-Fiction 1900 2 mins Silent Location: Lincoln
Victorian industrial workers leave their factory after a demanding day.