Findanyfilm.com
FindAnyFilm.com is an impressive website for anyone wanting to discover whether a particular film is currently available to watch, buy, download or rent in the UK in any format. The free service was founded as a collaboration between the UK Film Council, the Industry Trust, exhibitors, distributors and retailers to operate as a comprehensive film-watching search engine to promote high-quality, legally available films. The listings help locate films of 59 minutes or more in length across a number of different formats – cinema, TV, DVD, downloads, Blu-ray, etc, and if the desired format is not currently available, an alert system can be set up for future notifications. Links are provided to catch-up TV channels and there is a search facility for finding local cinemas, as well as information on new and forthcoming releases and streaming of trailers.

Links-up – Learning 2.0 for an Inclusive Knowledge Society
Links-up is an EU project looking at how ‘Web 2.0’ technologies – e.g. social networking software – are changing the face of education and training for disadvantaged people. The project puts together a picture of the ‘landscape’ of ‘Learning 2.0 for Inclusion’ by reviewing what has been done in the academic and research field, as well as by practitioners working on the ground. It uses a series of ‘action research’ experiments, collaborating with host projects working in the field, to evaluate the added contribution Web 2.0 can make to practices that use learning to support social inclusion. The website offers a collection of case studies as well as podcasts on local initiatives such as the Podcasting-Workshop in Senior citizen center of Walser Birnbaum.

Newsfilm Library at the University of South Carolina
The core gift that established the University of South Carolina’s Newsfilm Archive in 1980 was the Fox Movietone News collection comprising more than 2000 hours of edited stories, complete newsreels, and associated outtakes from the silent Fox News and sound Fox Movietone News Library. This unique film material dates from 1919-1934 and from 1942-1944. It is supplemented by paper records, some of which may be examined online. A comprehensive index to this collection is available through the reference catalog. Other news collections from local television stations are being processed and added to the catalogue. A small number of samples from the collections are streamed for online viewing.

PopMatters
This long-standing online journal, established in the US in 1999, concerns itself with alternately celebrating, dissecting and generally engaging with popular culture in its various forms. It includes reviews, articles, interviews, blogs and multimedia materials and has amassed large quantities of material, much of its with a serious, academic flavour. Many articles are gathered around themes or to discuss the work of specific individuals.

UCLA Film & Television Archive
With over 300,000 films and television programmes, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage, the UCLA Film and Television Archive is the world’s largest university-held collection of motion pictures and broadcast programming. Information on these collections is available via the online catalogue. Among the collections are:

• Film – Containing material dating back to the 1890s, the motion picture holdings include major 35mm collections from Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century-Fox, Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, New World Pictures, Orion Pictures, RKO and Republic Pictures. In addition, the Archive’s 16mm film collection has more than 5,000 titles.
• Television – The television collection documents the entire course of broadcast history; it includes many milestones in the history of television.
• News – The news collections, including the Hearst Newsreels and the News and Public Affairs collections, offer the researcher coverage of events from newsreels and national and local television news broadcasts.
• Audio – the audio collection consists of a wide selection of radio programming and unabridged interviews with 1970s era filmmakers.

Eleven films from the collection of early, silent animated films are available for online viewing or download.