Learning on ScreenNews Archive for September, 2013
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Visualising History Workshop
Published: 30 September 2013A rare workshop on British newsreels exploring their use as a historical source. Visualising history: newsreels, digitisation and TV documentary AHRC-funded Workshop – Institute of Historical Research, in collaboration with the University of Manchester, 15 November 2013, 10am-4.30 pm, Senate House, University of London. This one-day cross-disciplinary workshop will explore how British newsreels have been […]
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Autumn issue of Viewfinder now out
Published: 30 September 2013
Viewfinder 92 includes articles on science videos, Channel 4 press packs, the British Library’s speech-to-text activities, the REFRAME project and much more. -
New on the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway
Published: 26 September 2013The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,400 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/ GB3D Type Fossils This website – the world’s first virtual 3D fossil collection – is […]
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Into the Light: Sir Michael Balcon and Birmingham
Published: 24 September 2013Into the Light: Sir Michael Balcon and Birmingham Birmingham City University Saturday 12 October 2013 from 10:30 to 17:30 Join us for a free day of screenings and discussion with Lord David Puttnam, Sir Albert Bore and Tamasin Day-Lewis, as we celebrate the life and legacy of Sir Michael Balcon, the Birmingham-born film producer who […]
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CFP: BAFTSS Conference 2014
Published: 24 September 2013After the success of the first BAFTSS Conference in Lincoln in April 2013, and following the first submissions of proposal we are pleased to announce the second Call for Papers for the 2014 Conference 24-26 April at Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image, University of London. As such, and with the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award […]
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Join the Women’s Film and Television History Network
Published: 24 September 2013Invitation to join the Women’s Film and Television History Network The Women’s Film and Television History Network is a group of researchers, teachers, archivists, collections managers, students, professionals, and enthusiasts engaged in exploring the contributions women have made to the emergence and development of film and television. We have come together to form the Women’s […]
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New additions to the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway
Published: 18 September 2013The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,400 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/ Bloggingheads.tv Founded in 2005, this American site pioneered split-screen video dialogues – or diavlogs – […]
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Peter Glenville centenary
Published: 18 September 2013This November big names from the world of stage and film, including the likes of Kevin Spacey and James Earl Jones, will gather in London to celebrate the life, career and legacy of the late film and theatre director Peter Glenville, 100years since his birth in the Capital. As part of the centenary celebrations, organised […]
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Launch of EnScènes
Published: 17 September 2013The French national audiovisual institute INA has recently launched EnScènes, a freely accessible online platform tracing 70 years of the history of performing arts (theatre, dance, mime, circus, opera, movement and all kinds of spectacle vivant) through moving image and sound. The site contains some 1,000 contextualised videos of performances and about 60 interviews (including […]
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Battles of the Archives – A thing of the past!
Published: 17 September 2013Focal Conference: Battles of the Archives – A thing of the past! 28 October 2013 FOCAL International will host a one-day event in London on October 28th designed to inspire a new generation of filmmakers and build bridges between stakeholders in the world of archive content. Entitled Battles of the Archives – A Thing of […]
