Latest on: Archives and Footage
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Seán Street – Memories of Sound survey
Published: 7 May 2013Seán Street, Emeritus Professor of Radio in the Media School at Bournemouth University, is currently writing a book, to be published next year by Routledge, with the working title, ‘The Memory of Sound: Preserving the Sonic Past’. As part of the research for the book, he is exploring how we remember radio programmes and moments …
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600 Roundabout Films Added to News on Screen
Published: 23 April 2013
More than 600 Technicolor cinemagazine videos from the 1960s now freely available to view online -
BFI Collections Search
Published: 3 April 2013http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web The British Film Institute has launched a test version of its new and improved information portal. This database contains information collected by the BFI since 1933. It holds over 800,000 film titles – including television programmes, documentaries, newsreels, as well as educational and training films – and is updated daily. Users can now search …
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BUFVC audiovisual citation guidelines
Published: 27 March 2013
Ever wondered how to cite a TV advert or DVD extra? Take a look at our new set of practical guidelines, which encourage best practice in citing audiovisual material across all disciplines. -
New Features for News on Screen
Published: 26 March 2013Three new exciting search & discover features have been added to News on Screen (NoS). You can now Search across 80,000 newsreel production documents Listen to five interviews with newsreel staff (HE/FE only) Browse over 100 souvenir programmes & brochures (HE/FE only) Search Production Documents really opens up the possibility of discovering new stories and …
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Charles Urban, Motion Picture Pioneer
Published: 13 March 2013Luke McKernan, Film Historian and Curator of Moving Image at the British Library, has relaunched his website devoted to the life and work of Charles Urban (1867-1942), one of the major figures of early cinema. Here you can learn about the varied career of the man who did much to establish the documentary, news, travel …
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BBFCinsight
Published: 28 February 2013The BBFC publishes detailed information about the content of every film that they rate via BBFCinsight, which is aimed particularly at parents. It offers a summary of how and why a film was rated at any given category. BBFCinsight highlights the key issues in a film then expands on this giving examples of the sorts …
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What is restoration? – FOCAL / BFI one-day conference
Published: 28 February 2013FOCAL INTERNATIONAL RESTORATION / PRESERVATION CONFERENCE 2 May 2013, BFI Southbank Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XT www.focalint.org/ ‘What is restoration?’ a one day conference to celebrate, discuss and analyse the range of work being carried out to preserve the world’s film and video heritage issues covered: ethics, techniques, commercial pressures, principles, presentation, formats, the canon, …
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Stanley Forman (1921-2013)
Published: 11 February 2013Stanley Forman, the documentary producer, distributor and founder of ETV Films (Educational Television Films) and a longtime friend to BUFVC has died after several years of ill health. His funeral will take place at 1PM on Monday 18 February at the Stonefall Cemetary, Wetherby Road, Harrogate HG3 1DE. John Riley wrote a profile of Stanley …
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Jisc and Ithaka S+R launch “Sustaining Our Digital Future” report
Published: 30 January 2013Today Jisc and Ithaka S+R are launching Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content (4.5 MB PDF, click here to download), a new report aimed at helping digital projects to thrive. This report, which provides a close look at three institutions (UCL, Imperial War Museums and the National Library of Wales) in the …
