Latest on: News on Screen
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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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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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Lords investigate investigative journalism
Published: 26 October 2011The House of Lords Communications Committee is currently conducting an enquiry into the future of investigative journalism, against the background of economic and technological changes in the media sector and the extent to which recent events have thrown investigative journalism into the spotlight. Written evidence has already been published and oral evidence from print and …
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Report on future of BBC World Service
Published: 27 September 2011The Commonwealth Broadcasting Association has recently launched a new publication, Brave New World Service. The report, by author, broadcaster and former hostage John McCarthy and CBA researcher Charlotte Jenner, highlights the ways in which the integration of the World Service with the BBC could provide a unique opportunity for the BBC to improve international coverage …
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The Key to More Access, 2 December 2011
Published: 26 September 2011Friday 2 December 2011 (10.30am onwards), The Geological Society, Piccadilly, London A BUFVC forum to discuss how current BUFVC projects will result in improved and integrated access to moving image and sound content. The morning forum will look at how the BUFVC constantly, and consistently, strives to not just increase the amount of content available, …
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BBC4 Series – The Story of British Pathe
Published: 15 August 2011Starting this Thursday 18th August at 21.00 with The Birth of News, BBC4 are launching a four part series looking at the history of British Pathe. Over the next month each hour long episode will explore a different aspect of British Pathe’s production history starting with newsreels and continuing with the ‘voice of Pathe’. Each …
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BBC Chronicle Project Blog
Published: 22 July 2011The audio-visual archives of the BBC contain a wealth of material gathered since it was founded in the 1920’s but it remains largely inaccessible, held on film or videotape and indexed to serve the needs of programme-makers within the BBC. ‘Chronicle’ is a new project that explores how material from the BBC’s extensive archive of news …
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Central Office of Information (COI) to close
Published: 27 June 2011It has been announced that the Central Office of Information (COI), the government communications and marketing organ is set to close shortly. Responsible for making thousands of public information films since the 1940s, though the COI has antecedents going back almost a century, many of these can be viewed online at the National Archives website …
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BUFVC launches federated search environment
Published: 16 June 2011
Access nine online databases, containing over 13 million records and use intelligently designed interactive research tools to find and discover new content. -
Forgotten Futures – Book Offer
Published: 15 June 2011Forgotten Futures: British Municipal Cinema 1920-1980 By Elizabeth Lebas This ground-breaking new work by Elizabeth Lebas is the first survey of British municipal cinema and covers films from the Department of Public Health, documentary and local authority films. Forgotten Futures is an account of a distinct era in filmmaking history, and the impact these community …
