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- http://www.bbc.co.uk
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Media Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Organisations, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings, Web Links
A vast site that covers BBC1, BBC2, BBC3 and BBC 4 and BBC Radios 1-7. The BBC website is an exceptional resource, with extensive video and audio content, including radio programmes which remain available for a week after broadcast via the Listen Again service. The whole site is searchable and it has links to other sites of interest and includes full BBC television and radio listings (including regional variations) and has links to other sites for comprehensive UK television and radio listings. There a numerous microsites for individual programmes, series and subjects. Video content alone can be searched via an option on the front page.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- http://www.griersontrust.org
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Organisations
John Grierson coined the term ‘documentary’ in its filmmaking sense and famously defined it as the ‘creative treatment of actuality’. This site gives information on Grierson and the documentary movement, and gives details on the annual Grierson Awards for documentaries. It contains A Researcher’s Guide to John Grierson: Films, Reference Sources, Collections, Data, with a chronology, bibliography and filmography. There is also the complete soundtrack (words W.H. Auden, music Benjamin Britten), to the GPO Film Unit’s Night Mail.
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- http://www.afi.com
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Organisations, Streaming/Download
The American Film Institute’s site includes information on its film preservation, education and exhibition activities, and American cinema in general. The site includes short QuickTime extracts from recent restorations such as Richard III (1912).
Other Online Moving image
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- https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/visuallearninglab/visuallearninglab.aspx
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Education
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Organisations
The Visual Learning Lab is one of the two national HEFCE-funded Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Nottingham. Its areas of interest incude interactive video conferencing, virtual reality, workplace simulations, 3-D animation, visual representations of complex concepts to enhance student learning, mobile technologies. the site includes details of projects and case studies.
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- http://sfi.usc.edu/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Organisations, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
Between 1994 and 1999, the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation—now the USC Shoah Foundation Institute—interviewed nearly 52,000 survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. The Institute interviewed Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah’s Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) survivors, survivors of Eugenics policies, and war crimes trials participants. Members of the public can use the online Testimony Catalogue to view biographical information for all interviewees in the archive. This provides data only, with no video. Institutions can apply for access to the entire Visual History Archive or to acquire testimony copies.
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- http://www.pims.math.ca/resources/multimedia
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- Science and Technology
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Organisations, Streaming/Download
This site includes a large number of audio and video lectures available either as MP3 files or on video requiring Real Player. The topics covered range across a very wide spectrum, from Cascade Topology, String Theory and Mathematical Biology to seminars on Numeracy and Beyond and Hollywood Perceptions of Mathematics.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/nielsen-solutions/nielsen-measurement.html
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- American Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Organisations
Nielsen, a company who supply Canada and the US with television ratings information have a website which outlines the way in which representative population samples are taken, and how participants’ viewing patterns are monitored.
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- http://www.commedia.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Geography, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Organisations
Founded in 1983, the CMA is a non-profit making organisation, supporting Community Radio and Television and community-based Internet projects. It represents Community Media to Government, industry and regulatory bodies. Much of the CMA’s work has a strategic emphasis and in 2004 the organisation was heavily involved in liaison with Government regarding recent actual and proposed legislation on Community Radio, Public Service Broadcasting, BBC Charter Review, Local and Community Television, the Broadcasting Code, Media Literacy, Digital Switchover, the Community Media Fund and Spectrum allocation. There are links to a selection of radio stations around the country that allow a variety of sounds, styles and content from across the sector to be sampled.
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- http://www.mahatma.org.in
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- History, Religious Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Organisations, Streaming/Download
This site offers a variety of materials relating to the life, work and legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, including a BBC radio interview and some newsreel materials available via bothReal and Windows Media Player. One can also find stills, a family tree, a useful timeline and a number of books available for sale.