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News Archive for November, 2015

  • Viewfinder: The Film Issue

    VF_101-cover-web-small The Film Issue: looks at Gothic Horror, Italian Moviegoers and Sixties British Cinema; plus The Prisons Memory Archive and the ADAPT TV project.

  • BUFVC offices closed on 27 November

    The BUFVC’s offices will be closed on Friday 27 November 2015 for our one-day event, From Shakespeare to Science – supporting best practice in student engagement, which will also include our AGM. For further details, click here.

  • The BBC on Moving Image Gateway

    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. BBC Inside Science BBC Radio 4 series. Dr Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and challenge the controversies behind the […]

  • Globe Puts Shakespeare Shorts on Big Screen

    Short film versions of Shakespeare’s 37 plays are to be shown on giant screens next year to mark the 400th anniversary of his death. Actors are being dispatched around the world to film their lines on locations where the plays are set. Fans of the bard can expect to see Cleopatra in Egypt, Julius Caesar […]

  • Media Screen Roundup – October 2015

    The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, and published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. In this month’s Roundup there is a focus on politics and empire. Negrine and Bull investigate the television coverage of the British MPs’ expenses scandal. The gender bias coverage in […]

  • EUscreenXL User Survey 2015

    EUscreenXL are looking at ways they can improve their online portal, and they need your help.  EUscreenXL provides access to Europe’s audiovisual collections via its online portal, which includes millions of digitised moving image resources from Europe’s museums, libraries and archives. In order to make the portal the best that it can be, EUsceenXL want to […]

  • Science on Moving Image Gateway

    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. BBC Inside Science BBC Radio 4 series. Dr Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and challenge the controversies behind the […]

  • David Samuelson (1924-2015)

    David Samuelson, one of the few surviving British newsreel cameramen, passed away on 28th October at the age of 91. He joined British Movietone News as a projectionist in 1941 progressing through the cutting room to rejoin Movietone as a cameraman, after service with the RAF in 1947. One of his first assignments was as […]