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News Archive for December, 2014

  • Media Screen Roundup – November 2014

    The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. In the month the new James Bond film was announced, Media Screen Roundup documents the chapter by Jim Leach – The (Inter)national Bond: James Bond and the ‘Special Relationship’ – […]

  • New entries on the Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,600 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/ Faculti This site presents videos of academics from various disciplines, talking to camera about their interests […]

  • VIEW Journal CfP: Archive Based Productions

    In 1927, when Esfir Schub released her commissioned film The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution, she hardly knew that her extensive use of film footage and newsreels of the event would mark the invention of a new ‘genre’: the archive based production or compilation genre. Television […]

  • New entries on the Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,600 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/ British Geological Survey The British Geographical Survey is the UK’s principal supplier of geological expertise and […]

  • New BUFVC Schools Membership

    Schools across the UK can join BUFVC and access a range of specialist membership services and support. Membership now includes access to BoB (Box of Broadcasts). BoB in Schools Membership allows schools to view and record well over 1.2 million TV and radio programmes (including foreign language content). Registered users can access an extensive archive […]