Latest on: Archives and Footage

• Wartime Newsreel British News Now Online

  Published: 4 May 2012

  Issues of the newsreel British News is now online and available for download from the British Council Film Collections website. This war-time newsreel was produced for the British Council by the Newsreel Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This meant that every week one of the five major newsreel companies, which made up the …

  Categories: Archives and Footage, News on Screen

• Women’s Film and TV History Network web launch

  Published: 20 April 2012

  The Women’s Film and Television History Network-UK/Ireland has launched its new website. WFTHN members receive a regular e-newsletter which keeps them up-to-date with conferences, events, calls for papers, publishing and funding opportunities, and related news. To preview the latest issue of the WFTHN e-Newsletter, click here. To become a member and receive the WFTHN e-Newsletter, sign …

  Categories: Archives and Footage, General News, Viewfinder

• Official launch of Chronicle: BBC Northern Ireland’s television news from the 60s & 70s

  Published: 19 April 2012

  In partnership, the BBC, JISC and the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC), today announce the launch of Chronicle, a project to make BBC Northern Ireland’s television news from the 1960s and 1970s available to the academic community online. The audio-visual archives of the BBC contain a wealth of material gathered since it was …

  Categories: Archives and Footage, General News, TV and Radio

• Register for free access to BBC Northern Ireland’s news footage

  Published: 20 March 2012

  The BUFVC is pleased to announce the pre-launch of Chronicle: BBC Northern Ireland’s television news from the 60s and 70s, for exclusive use by UK higher and further education institutions. Get free access for your institution here

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• The way to search BUFVC collections is changing

  Published: 15 March 2012

  You can now search 9 of the BUFVC’s collections straight from the BUFVC homepage (beta version).  View almost 14 million film, television and radio records, dating from 1896 onwards, via a single search box. The new simple way to search will open up the stand-alone collections allowing you to discover new content and unexplored collections. …

  Categories: Archives and Footage, BOB, General News, News on Screen, Quick Tip, Shakespeare, Trilt, TV and Radio

• Journal of European Television History and Culture released

  Published: 8 March 2012

  The Journal of European Television History and Culture has been launched today: http://journal.euscreen.eu. The Journal builds on recent digitisation initiatives in European archives and audiovisual libraries. It addresses the need for critical study of the cultural, social and political role of television in Europe’s past and present with the help of television material that is …

  Categories: Archives and Footage, EUscreen, General News

• BBFC Symposium

  Published: 7 March 2012

  Cuts and Categories: 100 years of the BBFC Wednesday 21 March 2012, from 12.00 to 18.00 De Montfort University, Leicester http://re-thinkingcinemaandtv.blogspot.com The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester is hosting an afternoon symposium to mark the 100th anniversary of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC): The speakers are: …

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• Manchester Time Machine

  Published: 29 February 2012

  The Northwest Film Archive has launched the Manchester Time Machine, an iPhone app that merges archive film with GPS to create a street level tour of Manchester’s streets and people over the last 100 years. Manchester Time Machine uses rare historical film from the Archive to take you back to exactly the same location to …

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• New Consultation for Non-Print Legal Deposit

  Published: 28 February 2012

  The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has issued a consultation on a draft Legal Deposit Libraries (non-print works) Regulations 2013. To download the documents, visit: www.culture.gov.uk/consultations/8878.aspx The draft regulations are designed to ensure the Legal Deposit Libraries provide a national archive of the UK’s non-print published material. This is to cover off line …

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• New British Library Sounds website

  Published: 21 February 2012

  The British Library has launched its Sounds website http://sounds.bl.uk The new website allows users to listen for free to 50,000 tracks of music, spoken words and environmental sounds. Listeners at licensed UK universities and colleges may additionally download tracks for their research. The site’s large holdings have been organised into nine main collections, which include: …

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