Latest on: News on Screen
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JISC MediaHub
Published: 26 April 2011Following a successful preview period, JISC have announced the first release of the JISC MediaHub interface to a wider audience at http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk. It is available via the UK Access Management Federation or direct IP. Access to the resource has been enabled for all institutions subscribing to Education Image Gallery, Film & Sound Online or NewsFilm …
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Oscar update: The King’s Speech In Newsreels
Published: 28 February 2011At the Oscars this year THE KING’S SPEECH was awarded the prize for best film, best director, best actor and best screenplay. Details of the night’s awards can be accessed here. Director Tom Hooper’s film tells the true story of how Albert, Duke of York (played by Colin Firth) worked with Australian speech therapist Lionel …
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British Council Films Online
Published: 17 December 2010Thirteen British Council films from the 1940s have been digitised and are now available from their Time/Image website. These documentaries reflect the work of great directors such as Mary Field (Development of the English Town), Philip Leacock/Paul Rotha (Island People) and Ken Annakin (London 1942), as well as an apprenticeship for future ones such as …
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Professor Philip M. Taylor
Published: 8 December 2010It is with regret that we report the death this week of Professor Philip Taylor on 6 December 2010. He was Professor of International Communications in the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds. The BUFVC recently made available some of the films he helped produce for the Inter-University History Film Consortium and …
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BUFVC 2011 Handbook now available
Published: 8 December 2010
The 2011 edition of the BUFVC Handbook is now available and a complimentary copy is being sent to all BUFVC members
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London Transport Films Online
Published: 12 November 2010The London Transport Museum website now features a small selection of films that can be viewed online. Drawn from its substantial collection of films, most notably documentaries made by British Transport Films in the 1950s and 1960s, these eight films represent a broad range of material from 1910 to 1970. Of special interest to News …
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A Life Rewound
Published: 25 October 2010A Life Rewound is the memoir of the pioneering film and television producer, Peter Morley. His first job, aged 16, was as a rewind-boy in London’s Dominion Cinema. His rise to editing, and then writing and directing, documentary films was interrupted by the Second World War and four years in a tank. In 1955, as …
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Film & History Conference
Published: 27 September 2010Going to War 1939-45 Film, History and the Second World War 22-23 October 2010 Imperial War Museum, London This year the annual Winter Conference of the Institute of Historical Research focuses on the most filmed historical phenomenon of modern times, the Second World War. The conference brings together directors and film historians to discuss new …
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Archive Film Screening
Published: 31 August 2010As part of the Industrial Revolutionises exhibition at the Harris Museum in Preston there is a special event taking place at the University of Central Lancashire. Preston on Film with North West Film Archive Thurs 23 September 7.30 – 9pm Film specialist Geoff Senior from the North West Film Archive takes a close look at …
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IWM Student Film Festival and Competition
Published: 3 August 2010The Imperial War Museum has just launched its annual student and amateur Film Making Competition and Festival. Now in its tenth year, the festival will run from November to December 2010. There are three competition categories: ‘Annie Dodds Award for the Best Documentary,’ ‘Best Imaginative Response to the Subject of War’ and’Winner of the Audience …
