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- Link
- https://liverpoolpicturepalace.wordpress.com/about-us/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Lists, Streaming/Download
The cinema as a place of popular mass entertainment towered over Liverpool in the first half of the last century. This left a rich legacy, not only of picture house buildings, but also of the pictures made for an insatiable and loyal audience. This site is devoted to collecting and preserving stories and images from the Golden Age of the Silver Screen in Liverpool: old black and white photographs, posters, handbills, programmes and lobby cards together with interviews and essays bear witness to the important role that cinema played in the lives of the working people of Liverpool. Some of the gems included are: an interview with filmmaker Alex Cox, who visits the Futuristic Cinema and recounts his memories of the first film he ever watched there; an interview with actor Ricky Tomlinson; and the oral histories from the projectionists, usherettes and organ players. The website is a ‘living archive’ which means that anyone with a story about cinemas in Liverpool is welcomed to share it.
Other 
Online 
Moving image 
Audio
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- Link
- http://fromthearchive.libsyn.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Lists, Podcasting, Reviews
A celebration of all things British television from Greg Bakun, an American collector of British television programmes. The website started as a blog where Bakun would write about a randomly selected programme from his own archive. The site has now evolved and offers a series of podcasts on the same subject but with an emphasis on television preservation, restoration and missing material. Episodes so far include an interview with Chris Perry, CEO of Kaleidoscope, a celebration of Tony Hancock, which presents rare audio recording clips from his shows, and an interview with Sue Malden, the first ever BBC Archive selector. Although not easy to find, the site also includes reviews of DVDs.
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- Link
- https://www.conservethesound.de/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Lists, Streaming/Download
This is a German online archive/museum for sounds considered to be in danger of disappearing. The project was created in 2013 and is continuously expanding. Sounds can be searched chronologically and/or by selecting the image of an object. For example, a picture of a ‘library stamp’ is linked to an audio file with the sound of the stamp in action, a slide show of images depicting the stamp from different angles and a record with a brief description of the object. There are video interviews with collaborators who give an insight into the world of disappearing sounds, and the public is offered the possibility of preserving and exhibiting sounds thought to be about to vanish by uploading them to their archive.
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- Link
- http://www.culturalequity.org/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Ethnology, Languages, Music, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Lists, Streaming/Download
The idea that the expressive traditions of all local and ethnic cultures should be equally valued was at the heart of musicologist Alan Lomax’s career. His Sound, Photograph and Video collections, which are the legacy of his extensive field research carried out between 1946-1990, can now be accessed online via the Cultural Equity website. Gems include The New Orleans Jazz Interviews (1949), the England and Wales folk songs (1951-1958), blues artist Big Bill Broonzy, Bessie Jones, and Caribbean 1962, just when the British West Indies were on the verge of independence. There are also three YouTube channels: The Alan Lomax Archive, which offers video clips from Lomax’s “American Patchwork” fieldwork (1978-1983), thus far including Mississippi Delta and Hill Country, Appalachia, New Orleans, Cajun Louisiana, Johns Island, SC; The Global Jukebox Channel with 600 recorded language examples collected by Lomax for Parlametrics, his study of speaking style, and the Cultural Equity Channel set up to provide Grenadians at home and in the Diaspora with an interactive online resource for Grenadian folkways and an outlet for cultural feedback.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Media Studies, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Lists, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
This impressive collection of over 16,000 sound effects is now available to listen, download and use for personal, educational or research purposes. The content is organised by description, category and duration and can be searched by keyword. For example, entering ‘telephones’ returns 121 entries, including American telephones, the Bakelite 200 series from 1930 onwards, mobile phones, answering machines and many more; under the keyword ‘trains’ we can find over 250 sound effects including steam, electric, diesel and high speed trains, Eurostar, train tunnels, train stations, train bridges, etc.
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- Link
- https://soundcloud.com/thetipoff
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Media Studies, Politics and Government
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
What does it mean to be an investigative journalist today? Which are the tricks of the trade? Do you need to study it or is it all just about instinct and stubbornness? This podcast showcases some of the best UK investigative journalism from recent years. Maeve McClenaghan, from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, is the host and in each episode she takes us to the behind the scenes of an important news story, from the tip off through to the story getting published. There are 11 episodes so far, including Follow the Money, which uncovers the questionable financial practices of one of the Conservative Party’s largest donors, and Back to the Source which reveals how finding a vital source can let you into the world of the Pentagon’s top-secret propaganda machine.
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- Link
- https://theconversation.com/uk/podcasts/the-anthill
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- General Science, Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Studies, Technology
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The Anthill is The Conversation UK’s podcast service devoted to bring to light some of the best research from the world of academia. Each episode, which lasts around 45 minutes, focuses on a theme and invites academics from different disciplines to share their expertise on it. Themes explored so far include Time, Humour, The Future, Memory, Unexplored places, Games and Dark matter. The podcasts, co-hosted by two experienced content editors from The Conversation, are recorded in the studios of the Department of Journalism at City University London, and have the bonus of sounding like high quality radio programmes.
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- Link
- https://www.whosampled.com
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Music
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Streaming/Download
Site dedicated to uncovering direct connections between songs and artists. Created and maintained by a community of over 17, 000 contributors,WhoSampled facilitates the discovery of samples, cover songs and remixes. Genres covered include Hip-Hop, Rap and R&B, Electronic/Dance, Rock, Pop, Soul, Reggae, Jazz and Classical.
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- Link
- http://great78.archive.org/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Music
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
This project, which is a collaboration between the Internet Archive, George Blood L.P. and the Archive of Contemporary Music, aims to preserve and make available digitised recordings of 78 rpm records. The project invites users to listen to the recordings, but also to help improve the metadata, curate the collections, help with research and to donate more recordings.
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- Link
- https://soundcloud.com/oupacademic
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- History, Law, Literature, Music
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
A selection of audio resources from the Oxford University Press. Music, literature, history and the law are well represented. Editors of the Oxford World’s Classic Series offer useful insights - ‘audio guides’ - into the works of their authors. The selections include Jane Austen’s teenage writings, ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James, Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’, Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’ and many others.
Learning on Screen