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- https://www.usgs.gov/products/multimedia-gallery/audio
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- Environmental Studies, Geology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Organisations, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The USGS is a science organisation that provides impartial information on ecosystems and environment. The site offers audio and video podcasts, the majority of which are accompanied by downloadable transcripts. The description of content is good, there is a keyword searching facility, and helpfully the summary gives information on the director/producer/interviewer. Recent topics have included Mercury and Global Change, Geomagnetic Storms and Preparing for Earthquakes.
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- http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/RADIO1.HTML
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, TV/Radio listings
An amateur enthusiast site offering differing levels of comprehensiveness on BBC radio drama. There is information on radio drama by decade from 1943 to date giving title, series, basic credits and transmission times. More recent entries are fuller with information taken and edited from Radio Times. Searches can be made by author, producer, year and theme. There are reviews, articles and lists of missing programmes, BBC World Service Drama radiography is a work in progress compiled by Barry Hodge.
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- http://www.jewishfilm.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies
- Type of resource
- Festivals, Funding, Information Sources, Organisations, Video Sources
Founded in 1976, NCJF is recognised as a world leader in the collection, restoration and exhibition of Jewish art and culture. The Centre has led the revival of Yiddish Cinema and its priority is the preservation and restoration of rare and endangered film materials. To date, the Centre has restored more than 100 rare and orphan films that document the diversity and vibrancy of Jewish culture, including 44 Yiddish films. NCJF provides programming consultation and research assistance to filmmakers, artists, educators, curators and organisations. The Centre is also an exhibitor, producing programmes for the public, including 17 Boston-area film festivals. Under its fiscal sponsorship program, NCJF provides a non-profit umbrella to independent filmmakers.
Over 300 films are available for online purchase on DVD.
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- http://www.ajcarchives.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Journals, Streaming/Download
This website is a model of uncluttered clarity. The online collection features extensive audiovisual content from the American Jewish Committee’s anti-prejudice campaigns in the post-World War II era. Users will find, in addition to the films and television programmes themselves, primary documentation produced by the AJC’s television department about the production of these cartoons and live-action short subjects. Also includes the audio content with scripts of AJC-related radio programmes from 1939 to 1955. There is an interactive time-line giving a decade-by-decade tour through the twentieth century.
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- http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/Shakespeare
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Dance, Drama, Film Studies, Literature, Music, Radio Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, TV/Radio listings, Video Sources
An extensively researched and authoritative online database of Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recording. It is international in scope and regularly updated currently holding over 8,000 records dating from the 1890s to the present day. This resource was created through a three-year Resource Enhancement grant from the Arts & Humanities Research Council. The Database encompasses not only ‘straight’ productions of the plays but also parodies, plot borrowings, documentaries, and Shakespeare as represented in music, mime and dance.
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- http://www.docwest.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Courses, Funding, Information Sources, Organisations
Established in 2011, the Centre at the University of Westminster, brings together an interdisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners and students to foster documentary and experimental film practices. It hosts a wide range of screenings, master-classes and conferences. The Centre offers both theoretical and practice-based doctoral degrees focusing on a variety of contexts and referencing many different documentary and experimental film traditions. It also aims to provide a platform for initiating, funding and distributing creative documentary and arts projects conceived at the intersection between academia and the industry.
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- https://artuk.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Art
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Databases, Information Sources
Your Paintings is a website developed by the BBC and the Public Catalogue Foundation (known now as Art UK) to create a complete record of the United Kingdom’s national collection of oil, tempera and acrylic paintings and make this accessible to the public. The site can be searched by artist, by gallery or other institution, and by what’s in a painting, for example the subject of a portrait, places depicted, or objects such as trees and houses. The subject access is somewhat unwieldy to use and often brings up very large numbers of ‘hits’. The quality of the images is generally excellent and displayed alongside details of the gallery where it can be seen. To support the project for schools the site offers a range of online resources including: slideshows of paintings with ideas for use in the classroom; profiles of careers in the art world; and a guide to artistic styles and movements.
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- http://mavise.obs.coe.int/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Producers/Broadcasters
MAVISE is a database edited and published by the European Audiovisual Observatory listing tv and on-demand audiovisual companies and services in Europe. As of August 2017 there are 42 national TV markets, over 12,000 television channels, and 1,200 on-demand audiovisual services, 9,100 companies (broadcasters, packagers, transmitters).
The main aims of MAVISE are to provide better knowledge of the audiovisual market and more transparency, essential if the market is to operate properly and to ensure the laws governing it are relevant. MAVISE enables the European Audiovisual Observatory to provide the audiovisual industry, institutional decision-makers, and the general public with all the information they need about developments affecting the European market for television and on-demand audiovisual services even more regularly and efficiently than before. Companies in the audiovisual sector may also benefit considerably from this project.
A drawback is that the text on the site is set in too small a font size and thus difficult to read.
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- https://www.educatorstechnology.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Education
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Technology, Web Links
Located in Canada the site is operated by teachers and offers educational web tools and mobile apps for teachers and educators. One area of the site lists web based platforms for both online museums and virtual field sites that can be used with students in class, these include the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, NASA and the National Women’s History Museum.
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- http://www.tvdawn.com/
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- Science and Technology
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- Engineering, Technology
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Journals, Technology
Don McLean’s website documenting the restoration project he completed in 2004 on Baird’s 1927-35 30 line recordings. A highly detailed and authoritative account of the earliest days of television and McLean’s restoration activities. The clear and easy to navigate site includes a bibliography and links to McLean’s published articles.
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