Latest on: News on Screen
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Reel News – Introducing Television
Published: 2 March 2010For an early instance of ‘electric vision’ as demonstrated by one of the pioneers of television, John Logie Baird (1888-1946), see the high-quality download of the Gaumont Graphic newsreel story Television (29/08/1928). For viewers without an UK HE/FE subscription, the story is also accessible on the ITN Source website.
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Reel News – Editing
Published: 1 February 2010For an illuminating rendition of 1920s newsreel editing, take a look at the Newsfilm Online high-quality download of ‘Gaumont Graphic Editor and Women’s Lacrosse Battle‘ (25/10/1928), a Gaumont Graphic newsreel story guest-edited by J. H. Thomas, British trade-union leader and politician. For viewers without an UK HE/FE subscription, the story is also accessible on …
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Will Regional Television News Survive 2010?
Published: 18 January 2010The prognosis is not good according to Steve Hewlett’s short analysis (The Guardian 18/1/2010) of the options surrounding the Independently Financed News Consortiums. He argues that this solution, for provision of local news beyond the BBC, is already being undermined, even as the list of bidders eager to participate in the pilots is being published. …
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Reel News: The Animated Story
Published: 8 December 2009Did you know that newsreels entertained their audiences with humorous and often pointedly satirical animated takes on important events? Some of the earliest animations produced for Gaumont Graphic were George E. Studdy’s war cartoons shown from March to July 1915. This remarkable series adds an important dimension to our understanding of the representation of the …
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Reel News – Which Is The Coldest Job?
Published: 1 December 2009Winter is upon us with the first big freeze keeping the road police busy in Northern Ireland, but what was it like for people with cold jobs in the Golden Twenties? The News on Screen/Newsfilm Online Crosslinking Project has located some ‘raw’ material showing jobs we no longer see on our screens today. Form your …
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Newsreel Audience Article
Published: 25 November 2009The latest issue (volume 6, issue 2) of Participations , the online journal of audience and reception studies, has an article by Louise Anderson which attempts to tackle the much neglected area of the audience within newsreel research.You can download the article from the Participations website.
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Reel News: First Indoor Story?
Published: 20 November 2009In December 1921 Gaumont Graphic filmed a 37-second story of delegates at the international disarmament conference held in Washington, D.C. The Company was proud to promote its technical achievement above the political significance of the event with a title which claimed `First Inside Pictures of Washington Conference’ and a summary which read `Inside views, made …
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Reel News: Biscuit Town
Published: 16 November 2009Did you know that from 1870 until the 1970s Reading used to be called ‘Biscuit Town’ because of the Huntley & Palmers factory – by 1900 the largest biscuit manufacturer in the world?
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BBC launches live and on-demand coverage of Parliamentary sessions
Published: 7 November 2009The BBC has launched Democracy Live, an iPlayer-style website that shows live and on-demand coverage of Parliamentary sessions across the UK and of the European Parliament. Each institution is featured in the ‘video wall’ on the home page and has its own section, listing the business being covered each day. The site uses innovative search …
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1920s Broadcasting for Reel
Published: 3 November 2009Have you ever wondered what early film and broadcast productions were like?
The Gaumont Graphic newsreel story BROADCASTING VISUALISED (5/3/1926), will give you wonderful insights into both: as part of the News on Screen /NewsFilm Online Linking Project work, we have come across rare footage of a BBC radio transmission being conducted on the set of …
