[1] It collects and preserves film and videotape primarily from the Eastern counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.

[4][2] The collections include videotapes and reels from BBC East and ITV Anglia.

[5] The Archive also holds the film library of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers.

[6][7] This collection contains films from the Institute's regional or international competitions, as well as films submitted as part of sponsored competitions from newspapers such as the Daily Mail.

Invisible Innovators: Making Women Filmmakers Visible Across The UK Film Archives, is a project that was commissioned by Film Archives UK 'to explore the current scale and scope of the holdings of women's amateur filmmaking within the regional and national film and media archives.