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- http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/index.html
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- Social Sciences
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- Ethnology
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- Film/Video
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Alan Macfarlane at Cambridge University has been interviewing anthropologists, historians,ethno-musicologists and international travellers on video since the 1980s. Extracts from forty of these as well as the full interviews, often lasting between sixty and ninety minutes or more, can be found on this rudimentary but easy to use site and will require QuickTime to access. The full interviews (not all of which are available yet) are chaptered in reasonable detail and include useful metadata on the topics covered. The encoding is top notch, but some of the material was originally of poor quality and can therefore be a little hard to follow.
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- http://www.eevl.ac.uk
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- Science and Technology
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- Computing, Engineering, Mathematics
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- Databases, Information Sources
Despite a perhaps unfortunate sounding acronym, the EEVL Gateway has developed greatly in the last six years. Originally just covering Engineering, in addition it now also provides a wealth of information on Mathematics and Computing, mainly through its Internet Resource Catalogue, a collection of over 9,000 descriptions and links to quality Internet web sites. The service is run by Heriot-Watt University, Cranfield University, the University of Birmingham and the University of Ulster. The site provides engines to search for new articles, events, advances in manufacturing and even a section on job availability.
This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 16/07/2017. This does not include access to the moving images.
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- http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/external/isca/haddon/HADD_home.html
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- Social Sciences
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- Ethnology
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases
Haddon is an online catalogue of archival ethnographic films and film footage shot 1898-1945. It is named after A.C. Haddon, the Cambridge ethnologist whose Cambridge University Expedition to the Torres Straits in 1898 pioneered the science of ethnology, and made use of film and sound recordings. The database comprises films from several collections worldwide, and includes many titles from the BFI National Archive, quoting from its own detailed shotlists.
This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 27/08/2006. This does not include access to the moving images.
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- http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/vrml/electromagnetism/
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- Science and Technology
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- Physics
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- Databases, Information Sources
Rob Salgado of Syracuse University in the USA has attempted to visualise the vector fields (actually differential forms) of electromagnetism. To view the animation, it is necessary to use a VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) enabled browser.
This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 28/08/2011. This does not include access to the moving images.
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- https://www.creativeengland.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Databases, Information Sources
Vision+Media was an organisation which was formed to help grow the digital and creative industry in NW England by delivering projects and programmes that help creative companies and individuals (at all levels) in TV, Radio, Publishing, Music, Games, Film and Digital and Creative services. Vision+Media formed after a merger between North West Vision and media skills and training provider Media Training North West. In October 2011 it was merged into the Creative England Regional Screen Agency
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- http://www.dvdbeaver.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Film Studies, Media Studies, Technology
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- Film/Video
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- Databases, Information Sources
This fascinating resource is dedicated to reviewing international classic and cult movies on DVD, staying for the most part well clear of mainstream English-language films. Apart from essays and reviews and information on forthcoming releases, its most prominent feature is its evaluation of the technical audio and visual content of various DVD versions of films from around the world. The site looks at thousands of feature films and provides high resolution frame grabs to compare the visual quality of titles released in different territories, as well as comments on the audio presentation and the extras included. A dedicated Blu-ray microsite is particularly valuable.
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- http://www.buddhanet.net/
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- Social Sciences
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- Architecture, History, Religious Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Information Sources
Website dedicated to the story and practice of the Buddhist religion. It includes dozens of audio files relating to religious teachings and will require either Real Audio or QuickTime to play. There is also a multimedia section devoted to the history of the movement which requires Flash Player version 6 to access.
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- http://www.commercialbreaksandbeats.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, Media Studies, Music
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases
This site advertises itself as the "definitive directory of UK TV advert soundtracks". This comprehensive listing of over 2000 pieces of music used in recent television advertising can be searched chronologically (only as far back as 1996 though), by song title, artist as well as company or specific ad campaign. The site is linked throughout to Amazon.co.uk which often includes thirty-second clips in Real and Windows Media Player formats. There is also a forum. Inactive since November 29 2008.
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- http://www.britishfilm.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Information Sources
This nicely cross-referenced introductory level resource provides overviews of a number of themes, events and personalities relating to British film and television. The site includes overviews of author Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective, the films of Humphrey Jennings, 1980s British Cinema, the contribution made by Channel Four as well as an extensive look at the work of David Lynch.
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- http://leakeyfoundation.org
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- Social Sciences
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- Biology, Ethnology
This anthropology site is very well designed and features a large number of audio lectures which can be streamed easily. Those speaking include Leslie Aiello, Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall, Margaret Mead and others. The lecturers have been usefully broken down into bite size chunks and the site also includes links to many useful other websites.
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