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News Archive for December, 2013

  • The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway – Recent additions

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes nearly 1,500 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, telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/ ChemEd DL The Chemical Education Digital Library is a collection of online digital resources for education […]

  • BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests

    For the week ending 29 November 2013 the most requested programmes from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service were: 1. THE PLANNERS (BBC2) View TRILT record For more information, please go to the BBC website 2. RADIO FUN: THE STORY OF RADIO COMEDY (BBC RADIO 4) View TRILT record For more information, please go to the BBC website 3. THE MEN WHO MADE US THIN (BBC2) View TRILT record For […]

  • Media Screen Roundup – November 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. It never ceases to amaze me how articles and chapters on film or television can be discovered in the least obvious books. Part of the reason for starting Media Screen […]

  • New entries on the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes nearly 1,500 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/ Canal Educatif Offering educational videos for free is the laudable aim of this website, which […]

  • UPITN resource launched

    UPITN – September 1973: A Month in the Life of a Global News Agency http://bufvc.ac.uk/newsonscreen/upitn UPITN was a major global television news agency. It had an extensive network of foreign bureaux with crews filming events and people to supply broadcast news companies with material.  In the 1970s, along with Visnews, it was the key player […]

  • Presentations from Broadcast & Copyright in Education event now available

    A selection of presentations provided at the Broadcast & Copyright in Education forum on Friday 29 November 2013, are available to download from here. They include: Introduction to Broadcast & Copyright in Education & BUFVC Update  Luis Carrasqueiro, Outgoing BUFVC Chief Executive, BUFVC 17 Million Plus: Expanding and Enhancing TRILT Sergio Angelini, Information & Publications Executive, […]

  • Update: BUFVC Survey on Archives

    Thank you for completing the recent BUFVC survey on archive material. We had a great response and are very grateful to everyone who took the time to participate. The results from the survey are currently being analysed and will be fed into the RES-BoB project to highlight the need that currently exists for increased access […]

  • December on the Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes nearly 1,500 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/ Cymru 1914: The Welsh Experience of the First World War This resource is the result […]

  • BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests

    For the week ending 22 November 2013 the most requested programmes from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service were: 1. SEVEN AGES OF ROCK (BBC4) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National For more information, please go to the BBC website 2. IMAGINE… TURNING THE ART WORLD INSIDE OUT (BBC1) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National For more information, please go to the BBC website […]

  • An Age of Kings released on DVD

    An Age of Kings is the BBC’s compelling 15-part series from 1960 of William Shakespeare’s great national pageant of eight History plays. Watched by over three million viewers, it remains the most ambitious single Shakespeare project ever filmed for television. Hailed by the Guardian as ‘ambitious … exciting … a striking example of the creative […]