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- https://www.eastman.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Photography
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums, Courses
George Eastman House, in Rochester NY, promotes the understanding of photography and the moving image. World-renowned for its photograph and motion picture archives, the Museum is also a leader in film preservation and photograph conservation, educating the top archivists and conservators from around the world through its L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation GEH maintains a research library and study centre, organises conferences, hosts lectures and presents regular film screenings.
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- https://www.museum.tv/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Databases, Information Sources
The Museum of Broadcast Communication (MBC, based in Chicago, aims to collect, preserve and present historical and contemporary television and radio content as well as to education, inform and entertain the public through its archives, public programmes, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to its collections.
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- http://americanarchive.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Databases
A collaboration between WGBH and the Library of Congress with a long-term vision to preserve and make accessible significant historical content created by public media, and to coordinate a national effort to save at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity. During the first phase, scheduled to end in March 2016, the Library and WGBH are overseeing the digitization of approximately 40,000 hours of programs selected by more than 100 public broadcasting stations throughout the nation. Dating from the 1950s to the 21st century and emanating from all regions of the nation, these programs will be available to scholars, researchers, educators, students, and the general public at the Library’s research centre.
The AAPB website includes nearly 2.5 million catalogue records, 72,000 of which describe video and audio content that has been digitized by the AAPB. The records for all 2.5 million records are currently inventory-level and most have not yet been fully catalogued.
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- https://www.performingartscollections.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Dance, Drama
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Blogs, Courses, Databases, Discussion Lists, Footage Sources, Information Sources, Listserv, Video Sources
APAC, established 2015, is the Subject Specialist Network of performing arts collections in the UK and Ireland, and exists to offer a forum for discussing issues in performing arts heritage through regular meetings, an email listserv, study days and symposia. The UK Theatre Database will retrieve details of organisations which hold moving image and sound collections in their libraries and resource centres. It is the UK affiliate of SIDMAS, the International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts.
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- https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Journals, Reviews
The Close-Up Film Centre is an independent film resources in Brick Lane, east London. It houses a library of over 19,000 books and films available to its members specialising in early cinema, classics, world cinema, documentaries, experimental films, video art and independent films. The book catalogue ranges from film theory, criticism and practice to history, biography and periodicals. To complement the library, Close-Up’s online Archive includes the film journal ‘Vertigo’, thousands of entries related to cinema and the moving image ranging from film programmes, texts, videos, and audio documents. A new cinema will open in Spring 2015.
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- http://www.studycollection.co.uk/bamid
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Art
- Medium
- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums, Databases
A database designed to assist research into British artists’ film and video. It covers experimental and avant-garde film, video art, artists’ television, gallery-based installations and other works that use moving image and audio-visual multimedia technologies, made by British and British-based artists.
The database provides as comprehensive information as possible about several thousand works, including the date of making, first exhibition site (if known), the original format and often a short synopsis. It is also a guide to the dispersed national collection of British artists’ moving image works. It identifies the holdings of public and academic collections, archives, distributors and dealers, their location and conditions of access.
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- http://www.sellingdemocracy.org/
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- Social Sciences
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- Film Studies, History
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Web Links
This resource was developed to accompany a touring programme of a selection of films produced to promote the Marshall Plan. The site, which does not feature any online footage from the films themselves, contains essays, notes and other information about the 280 films which were produced by the Marshall Plan’s Motion Picture Section throughout Europe from 1948-1953. Written by film historian Sandra Schulberg, the site features essays about the plan itself, challenges faced by the filmmakers, the production and distribution process and censorship, as well as notes on the films which were toured and a selection of posters. There is also a bibliography and links to a full filmography, film archives.
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- https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/collections/world-war-I?q=&view=grid
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums, Databases, Footage Sources, Web Links
This resource contains information about American silent feature films released between 1912 and 1929. The aim of the database is to record how many films survive from the silent era, who holds them, how complete they are, and where the best surviving copy was found. The database covers the nearly 11,000 U.S. feature films released between 1912-1929, and also has holdings information about 3,300 of those titles for which elements are known to exist. The database is searched by keyword, which includes title, director, actors, studio, issue date, copyright claimant and, where the information is available, holdings location.
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- https://www.aamarchives.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- History, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Video Sources
This site tells the story of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and its campaigns to support the people of South Africa in their fight against apartheid. The AAM also conducted similar campaigns for Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Angola, and against South Africa’s attacks on its neighbours. The website features a plethorra of digitised resources including audio interviews with people who were involved in the movement, and videos of interviews, promotional films and footage of events, rallies and festivals. There are many other digitised resources, including leaflets, posters, conference programmes, badges, annual reports, postcards etc. All the resources are accompanied by a description, with rights information and other metadata where available, as well as textual information covering the history of the movement and its campaigns.
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- http://www.nanouk.ca/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
This virtual exhibition about Canadian Documentary film takes the form of a timeline spanning the 1890s to the 1990s, with a selection of landmark films representing each decade. Once the user has selected a particular film, he or she can see credits, read synopses and reviews and view video clips, stills and posters. There are also biographies of important Canadian documentarists, articles about popular topics and recording processes and equipment. Another timeline shows a century of documentary history in 54 key events. The resource is available in French and English language versions and makes use of Flash, Real Media and JavaScript
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