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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 …
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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 …
