Latest on: Archives and Footage
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New British Pathé website
Published: 31 January 2012That venerable newsreel company British Pathé has launched its new website at www.britishpathe.com with an emphasis in social networking. The entire archive can now be accessed via iPhone, iPad and other smart devices. The new search facility aims to make some 90,000 items easier to search and find, with improved dates and tagging – there …
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Report on Digital Challenges for European Film Heritage
Published: 24 January 2012The European Commission has just published a study on the Challenges of the Digital Era for Film Heritage Institutions. It analyses the challenges and opportunities that film heritage institutions are facing in relation to collection, storage and long-term preservation of digital film material, digital restoration, digitization and access to collections thanks to new technologies. The …
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Getty Mishmash Remix Competition
Published: 18 January 2012Getty Images have launched a new film competition – or more properly, a music/video/remix competition. Submission can include short fiction films, video art, music video, ad or mini-documentaries. At least half of the imagery (video or stills) must be from Getty Images – not from any other source – though you can add stills, video, …
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Christmas on EUscreen
Published: 20 December 2011A selection of highlights (and lowlights) from over 150 Christmas-related items currently available on the EUscreen portal: the criminal (Christmas tree theft, RTÉ, 1962) the curious (Parachuting Santa Claus, HeNAA, 1965) the poignant (Christmas alone, TVP, 1987) Take you own festive dip at www.euscreen.eu
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Media Archive for Central England (MACE)
Published: 20 December 2011The Media Archive for Central England (MACE) is the screen archive for the Midlands. It recently moved to the University of Lincoln and last week the facilities were officially opened by documentary producer Roger Laughton. The technical suite now houses film preparation and transfer facilities for copying 8mm and Super8mm, 9.5mm and 16mm film as …
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Earliest Shakespeare sound recording recovered
Published: 16 December 2011‘To be or not to be …’ as recited in the early 1880s crackled to life on computer speakers at the Library of Congress on Tuesday, 13 December. The early audio recordings on Volta discs – which revealed recitations of Shakespeare, numbers and other familiar lines – had been packed away and deemed obsolete at …
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UK launch of EUscreen portal
Published: 6 December 2011The British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC), together with Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL), were proud to present the UK launch of the redesigned EUscreen portal as part of BUFVC’s ‘Key to More Access‘ forum held at the Geological Society in London on 2 December 2011. The showcase presentation by Dr Sian Barber …
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The return of ‘Screen Research’
Published: 22 November 2011Using the new Scoop.it carapace, the defunct Screen Research network lives again. It now offers a dyamic presentation of the latest media stories of interest to education and research. With the stated aim of bringing together ‘information on researching all aspects of the moving image, from pre-cinema to Internet TV’, this news aggregator site is …
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The One Show (15/11/2011)
Published: 18 November 2011The BUFVC provided some material for a TV interview with Dr Luke Mckernan of the British Library (and previously Head of Information at the BUFVC)) for the episode of The One Show broadcast on BBC1 on Tuesday 15 November. Gyles Brandreth presented an item looking at the case of Margaret Leahy, who won an early …
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Google Doodle honours Louis Daguerre
Published: 18 November 2011A Google Doodle has been created to honour Louis Daguerre (1787–1851), who devised the daguerreotype, the first successful form of permanent photography. Those interested in the development of early cinema may be interested in Virgilio Tosi’s groundbreaking book Cinema Before Cinema, and the accompanying DVD The Origins of Scientific Cinematography, both of which are published …
