An inventory of Broadcasting Authority’s archives, which include more than 750 rolls of around 600,000 feet of film, is being drawn up.

Titles include Maltese and imported productions, the 1968 carnival, films from the original Maltese drama edition F’Baħar Wieħed, an interview with Sir Stanley Matthews, the British footballer who lived in Marsaxlokk, authority board meetings in the early 1970s and part of the 1971 Malta Song Festival.

A number of rolls are unmarked and have to be played to complete the inventory.

The authority said that while some 250,000 feet of film were in a good state, a substantial amount needed to be repaired. This was a complex and specialised process and there was no laboratory in Malta which could do the work.

The authority also had video and audio tapes.