News Archive for November, 2009
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Radio Microphones May Be Rendered Useless Post ‘Digital Switchover’
Published: 30 November 2009The vast majority of the UK’s radio microphones will become unusable as part of the ‘digital switchover’ plans according to a new campaign launched in November 2009. The Save our Sound UK (SOS UK) campaign brings together more than 20 organisations from the arts and entertainment sector and is lobbying against Government plans to sell …
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BUFVC Handbook 2010
Published: 25 November 2009
The 2010 edition of the BUFVC Handbook is now available. As always, this is a book aimed at information specialists, academic service providers, students and teachers. For details on how to order a copy, please visit the publications page. -
Newsreel Audience Article
Published: 25 November 2009The latest issue (volume 6, issue 2) of Participations , the online journal of audience and reception studies, has an article by Louise Anderson which attempts to tackle the much neglected area of the audience within newsreel research.You can download the article from the Participations website.
It draws on Anderson’s oral history work on people’s memories of newsreel … -
YouTube rolls out automatic captioning
Published: 20 November 2009Google has annouced that automated captioning will be rolled out to YouTube. Only 13 channels will initially use this system which combines speech recognition with manual captioning.
YouTube already provides ‘manual’ captioning but the new system will allow for the use of:speech recognition, which will inevitably produce errors although the technology continues to improve
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Reel News: First Indoor Story?
Published: 20 November 2009In December 1921 Gaumont Graphic filmed a 37-second story of delegates at the international disarmament conference held in Washington, D.C. The Company was proud to promote its technical achievement above the political significance of the event with a title which claimed `First Inside Pictures of Washington Conference’ and a summary which read `Inside views, made …
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Reel News: Biscuit Town
Published: 16 November 2009Did you know that from 1870 until the 1970s Reading used to be called ‘Biscuit Town’ because of the Huntley & Palmers factory – by 1900 the largest biscuit manufacturer in the world?
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As You Like It on German Theatre Channel
Published: 16 November 2009Among the German digital theatre channel ZDF Theaterkanal’s latest offerings is a full-length video stream of Katharina Thalbach’s imaginative all-female production of As You Like It which premiered at Berlin’s Kostüm und Theater am Kurfürstendamm earlier this year.
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The Power of the VHS: a BUFVC one-day meeting
Published: 12 November 2009The humble VHS is, rightly, regarded as a disposable commodity and not an archive medium, but the recordings on these cassettes are sometimes unique and irreplaceable. Since 1989 UK Universities and Colleges have created sizeable collections of valuable recordings on VHS. Today however many universities need to reduce storage space and are shifting to other …
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FOCAL Awards 2010
Published: 9 November 2009Submissions are now being requested for the FOCAL International Awards 2010.
Have you researched or licensed archive or library stock footage in any type of production premiered in 2009? Was the use of footage images extraordinary, entertaining, enlightening? Have you handled, restored or preserved remarkable archive or stock footage images in 2009? Is there one person worthy of … -
BBC launches live and on-demand coverage of Parliamentary sessions
Published: 7 November 2009The BBC has launched Democracy Live, an iPlayer-style website that shows live and on-demand coverage of Parliamentary sessions across the UK and of the European Parliament. Each institution is featured in the ‘video wall’ on the home page and has its own section, listing the business being covered each day. The site uses innovative search …
