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News Archive for July, 2015

  • Moving Image Gateway Update

    This Gateway includes 1,800 websites relating to moving image 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. Architecture.com The website of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The British Architectural Library holds DVDs, videotapes and sound recordings […]

  • British Movietone Newsreel Archive on YouTube

    The entire newsreel archive of British Movietonews has been published on a Movietone YouTube channel by AP Archive who manage the collection. What does this mean? The publication of thousands of news stories, in high quality, spanning half a century freely available to browse, share and embed. For those of us already used to viewing the British Pathe […]

  • Moving Image Gateway Update

    This Gateway includes 1,700 websites relating to moving image 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. Documentary Educational Resources DER is a US-based distributor of documentaries whose mission is to promote thought-provoking documentary film and media for […]

  • Shakespeare on Globe Player

    Three new Shakespeare productions from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s 2013 Season of Plenty are now available on Globe Player: The Tempest (Roger Allam as Prospero, directed by Jeremy Herrin) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Michelle Terry as Hippolyta/Titania, directed by Dominic Dromgoole) Macbeth (Joseph Millson and Samantha Spiro as the Macbeths, directed by Eve Best) Each title […]

  • New on Moving Image Gateway

    This Gateway includes 1,700 websites relating to moving image 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. Irish Traditional Music Archive The Irish Traditional Music Archive – Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann – is a national reference archive and […]

  • Media Screen Roundup – June 2015

    The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. This issue opens with a rather morbid work and sets the trend for other works in the issue. Michele Aaron’s Death and the moving image examines the representation of death, […]