Learning on ScreenNews Archive for September, 2012
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Online Othello
Published: 26 September 2012The Brooklyn based Ready Set Go Theatre company has released an online performance of Shakespeare’s Othello. The web series is split into twelve ‘digestible’ parts, each less than ten minutes in length, with locations throughout New York City. Actors filmed the entire project in less than a month after their full-time day jobs and the […]
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Autumn edition of Viewfinder
Published: 26 September 2012
Viewfinder 88 is now out and includes profiles of Alfred Hitchcock, the COI collections, animation, broadcast heritage in Wales and more. -
New additions to the Gateway
Published: 26 September 2012The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,200 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email or telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/ Animal Science Image Gallery This resource provides images, animation and video […]
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Event: Raising awareness of moving image & sound
Published: 26 September 2012Get Creative >> Raising awareness of moving image & sound content in your institution Friday 7 December 2012 (10-3pm), London Do you promote the use of moving image and sound within your institution? Do you find it difficult to engage students and lecturers to use audiovisual content? Are your students concerned about how to reference […]
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New EU Screen exhibitions
Published: 25 September 2012The EUscreen virtual exhibitions were launched during August with 10 exhibitions exploring a range of topics from European identity to Television History and much more. Some exhibitions include materials from all partner archives, while others have been curated by the archives themselves and offer expert narratives on their own content. The first exhibition series saw […]
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Conference to celebrate 30 years of film on Channel4
Published: 25 September 2012The University of Portsmouth are organising a major conference at BFI Southbank on 1st and 2nd November to celebrate 30 years of film on Channel 4. The event brings together media historians and key personnel from the film and television industries to celebrate Channel 4’s contribution to British film culture over three decades, and to […]
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BFI Reuben Library officially open
Published: 21 September 2012Today the BFI Reuben Library officially opens in its specially designed space at BFI Southbank after its move from its previous premises in Stephen Street. The BFI Library has been a major resource for students and researchers for decades, BFI CEO Amanda Nevill, BFI Chair Greg Dyke and Mayor Boris Johnson marked the opening at […]
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Recent additions to the Gateway
Published: 20 September 2012The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,200 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email or telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/ Cervantes TV The television channel of the Instituto Cervantes streams videos […]
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BBC Radio: The Listeners’ Archive
Published: 20 September 2012A part of the BBC’s 90th anniversary (it was founded on 18 October 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd.) is looking to fill gaps in its holdings and is asking those who recorded broadcasts off-air on their own equipment, especially in the 50s and 60s, to help out. For updates, follow Twitter chatter: @BBCListeners […]
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Internet Archive launches TV News & Borrow
Published: 18 September 2012The TV News and Borrow service from the Internet Archive is designed to help citizens better understand the issues and candidates in the 2012 U.S. elections by allowing them to search closed captioning transcripts to borrow relevant television news programs. The resource can be searched by broadcaster and individual programmes. The collection now contains 350,000 […]
