News Archive for October, 2013

  • FOCAL Awards 2014 – call for entries

    The FOCAL International Awards, presented in association with AP Archive, celebrate achievement in the use of footage in all variety of genres, across all media platforms. Producers, filmmakers and other creative professionals who have used library footage in a documentary, feature film or any other form of production over the last year are encouraged to […]

  • New on the Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,450 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/ Bloomberg TV The website of the financial services, data and media company features audiovisual content […]

  • Call for Papers: From Theatre to Screen – and Back Again!

    This one-day conference to be held in Trinity House, De Montfort University, Leicester, 19 February 2014, seeks to examine the phenomenal success of theatrical adaptations of cinema, such as such as Dirty Dancing, The Full Montyand Top Hat, film adaptations of theatre, such as Les Miserables, Mama Mia and War Horse, as well theatrical productions whose success can be attributed, in part, to a […]

  • Online access to audiovisual heritage: EUscreen survey

    EUscreen, the pan-European aggregator of audiovisual heritage for Europeana, is inviting collection managers and legal experts to participate in a survey about online access to audiovisual collections. The purpose of the survey is to find out about the bridges and barriers to access provision. A survey has been created in order to obtain an overview […]

  • Film Archives UK new website

    Yesterday marked the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage – the day when archives around the world join together to celebrate audiovisual collections and the organisations working to protect, preserve and provide access to them. As part of the celebrations, Film Archives UK launched it’s new website, and in the coming year will be encouraging […]

  • Recently added to the Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,450 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/ BBC Prison Study This website explores the history of a social and psychological experiment carried […]

  • Media Screen Roundup – September 2013

    The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. Last month’s Roundup featured a special issue on the cinema of Quebec; a change of continent for this month’s edition takes us to South Africa and a special issue of […]

  • BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests

    For the week ending 10th October 2013 the most requested programmes from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service were: 1. BREAKING INTO TESCO (CHANNEL 5) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National For more information, please go to the Channel 5 website 2. THE WORLD AGAINST APARTHEID – HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG? (BBC4) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National For more […]

  • Recent additions to the Moving Image Gateway

    The 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/ BFI Player The BFI’s video-on-demand platform offers over 1,000 titles, including feature films, documentaries and […]

  • Call for entries: Learning on Screen Awards 2014

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    Enter the only UK awards celebrating and rewarding moving image production in learning, teaching and research. View the award categories and enter online.
    Deadline: 2 December 2013