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The BUFVC promotes the use of moving images and related media in UK higher education and research. The site includes access to a number of databases: Find DVDs, the Researcher’s Guide Online (RGO), News on Screen (incorporating BUND, the British Universities Newsreel Database), Television & Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT), BoB - Box of Broadcasts, several Independent Radio Collections and TV Times 1955-1985 (TVTiP). There is information on BUFVC courses and conferences, educational films for sale, details of BUFVC publications, and news and events covering the BUFVC and its member institutions.
A largely complete collection of the surviving shows from the 1938 American radio drama show, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, produced by Orson Welles and John Houseman. The complete shows can be streamed or downloaded in RealAudio format (some shows are also available as downloadable MP3s). The site also included the later series sponsored by Campbell’s Soup, The Campbell Playhouse (1938-40). This exceptional resource includes broadcasts of Dracula, Heart of Darkness and the notorious The War of the Worlds which caused a panic throughout America.
The archive holds a broad range of audio and video materials (alternately accessible via RealPlayer and Windows Media Player), most of which can be found in its online exhibitions.
LUX focuses on visual arts-based moving image work, a definition which includes experimental film, video art, installation art, performance art, personal documentary, essay films and animation. The organisation’s main activities are distribution, exhibition, publishing, commissioning, research, and professional development support, and the newly designed website neatly reflects all these activities. Of particular note is the easily searchable collection of 4500 films and videos by approximately 1500 artists, which evolved from the holdings of the now-defunct London Filmmakers Co-operative, London Video Arts and The Lux Centre. These works are available for hire or sale (via the online shop), some may be viewed online in their entirety (Video section) and some are included in online themed exhibitions (listed in the ‘What’s On’ section which also includes detailed information on LUX projects and events, and a calendar listing of upcoming events across London involving artists’ moving image). The site also features a blog and downloadable podcasts and vodcasts of interviews with artists, documentation of LUX events and specially commissioned content.
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