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- http://videolectures.net/
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- Science and Technology
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- Astronomy, Computing, General Science, Mathematics, Physics, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Courses
Hundreds of video lectures and tutorials from around the world are available from here on a variety of scientific topics as well as interviews with such luminaries as Tim Berners Lee and Noam Chomsky. Windows Media Player is required to view. The presentation is for the most part very straightforward and rarely goes beyond the taping in medium shot of a speaker lecturing his audience, though some of the interviews do stray outside the lecture hall. The encodings are perfectly watchable even for items that last over an hour and in addition copies of the relevant PowerPoints have sometimes been included. The site does not offer a subject index, but there is an alphabetised run down of all the speakers. The site is available in English and Slovenian.
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- http://www.iarecordings.org
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Archaeology, Engineering, History, Technology
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Distributors, Information Sources, Video Sources
A site devoted to information about recordings of various industrial processes and other aspects of industrial archaeology. There are two types of programmes - ‘productions’ are fully-edited programmes with commentary and ‘compilations’ are virtually unedited collections of archive material. All programmes are available for sale through the site.
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- https://www.hometheaterforum.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources
This is probably the most informative and widely quoted of the American websites devoted to Blu-ray and DVD news and reviews. Its contributors are generally mindful of both technical specifications and content, although they tend to be weaker from a historical point of view (i.e. films made before Star Wars was released on home video). Of the UK sites, the most prominent is probably Digital Fix (previously known as DVD Times), which along with DVD Reviewer is one of the few sites that caters for both US and UK releases (i.e. Region 1/A and Region 2/B discs).
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- http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/index.htm
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
- Subject
- Advertising, Film Studies, Media Studies, Photography, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Technology
This site is devoted to the many different types of widescreen processes that have proliferated practically from when film production first began. The style is occasionally irreverent, but the information is sound and there are a vast number of practical examples, all liberally illustrated with screen grabs from video versions and the original frames. There are also sections devoted to the history of colour film, the development of sound, film posters and much more.
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- https://www.grassvalley.com/resources/
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- Science and Technology
- Subject
- Media Studies, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Courses
Previously known as PVTV Learning, this online curriculum for the teaching of television production from America is available free to download.
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- http://tech-ops.co.uk/next/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Media Studies, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources
A site curated by Bernard Newnham, a cameraman who worked at the BBC during the 1960s. It is now Wordpress-based and operates in the form of posts from others who worked in technical roles at the BBC. These consist of photos, reminiscences, a couple of video clips and a few original documents all of which give a lively, nostalgic and largely anecdotal sense of what it was like working on such programmes as The Val Doonican Show, Top of the Pops and Blue Peter.
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- http://www.fsinet.or.jp/~funtime/sssm_com_editing_museum/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
- Subject
- Media Studies, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Technology
A collection of photographs of early video editing equipment, arranged as a historical time-line, with short descriptions. Includes the Ampex VR-1000 from 1956, the EECO-900 editor which employed time code for the first time, and other early makes from CDL, CMX, Datatron, Epic, ISC and RCA.
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- http://framemaster.tripod.com/index.html
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
- Subject
- History, Media Studies, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources
Site dedicated to the very earliest days of television and to the role that Dr. Vladimir Zworykin played in it while working at RCA in the United States. Highlights include photographs from the 1939 World Fair and of one of the the first US broadcast images - Felix the Cat.
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- https://prestocentre.org/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Courses, Information Sources, Technology, Web Links
Presto Centre (previously PrestoSpace) serves the audiovisual communities interested in digitisation and digital preservation worldwide. Its main objective is to provide advice on technical requirements, format decisions, legal decisions or online publishing requirements through free resources, use cases and publications. The site includes a Resources Archive section which offers a collection of text-based and mostly downloadable documents like white papers, technical reports, digests, references to information websites, instructional material and procedure guides.
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- http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-hollywood-science
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- Science and Technology
- Subject
- Film Studies, General Science, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Producers/Broadcasters
Site based on the BBC/Open University series in which Robert Llewellyn and Dr Jonathan Hare take on Hollywood Science, testing the science that filmgoers take for granted. Includes looks at Cool Hand Luke, Dante’s Peak, Die Hard, Ice Cold in Alex, Shanghai Noon and Speed. Does not include any online video content.
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