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- https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Advertising, American Studies, Architecture, Environmental Studies, Geography, Photography, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Distributors, Footage Sources
Gigantic company offering rights managed and royalty free content, including moving images, music as well as stills. Getty now manages collections previously known as Image Bank and Archive Films (see separate entries).
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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Architecture, Art, Classics, Dance, Drama, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Sports Science, Women’s Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
Hundreds of audio extracts from the BBC archives can be accessed here using Real Player, and feature a wide range of personalities, including Siegfried Sassoon, Alfred Hitchcock, Roald Dahl, George Bernard Shaw, Stevie Smith and dozens of others. It is possible to search alphabetically by name or by profession such as: actors, architects, cartoonists, composers, dancers, film directors, musicians, painters, photographers, poets, religious thinkers, sculptors, sports and writers. The individual clips are supplemented with biographical notes, and the site, part of the BBC’s main audio-visual site AudioVideo is extremely well presented and easy to use. This site was originally knows as Voices from the archive.
NB. This resource is currently unavailable.
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- https://www.oxygen.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Biology, Crafts, Drama, Media Studies, Medicine, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Discussion Lists, Streaming/Download, Update
Part of the now defunct ThriveOnline Organic Food Video Library was incorporated into a sister site, Oxygen.com. Oxygen is also a channel on American TV aimed at women, and the video gallery on the site includes streamed extracts from the channel’s programmes using QuickTime. Some of the clips come from British comedies, such as Nighty Night, Absolutely Fabulous and Suburban Shootout, but most of the extracts are from American shows, including Xena: Warrior Princess, Roseanne, Birth Stories, Drastic Plastic Surgery and many more.
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Moving image
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- http://www.cinenova.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Film Studies, Media Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Distributors, Streaming/Download
Cinenova is Europe’s leading promoter and distributor of independent film, video and media arts by women. The site includes the full Cinenova catalogue, booking details, and an online library of supporting information.
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- https://www.concordmedia.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
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- Architecture, Art, Dance, Development Studies, Education, Environmental Studies, Ethnology, Literature, Medicine, Psychiatry, Social Welfare, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Distributors
Major film distribution library covering medicine, sociology, arts, general education, anthropology and other areas of political and social interest. Concord distributes not only the Concord library but also distributes films and programmes for over 350 other bodies, including the Arts Council of Great Britain and Graves Audiovisual Library. Its attractively designed new website divides the collection into eleven categories, with descriptions and booking details for each title. The categories are Addictions, the Arts, Children, Community Topics, Counselling & Mental Health, Death & Bereavement, Education, International, Medical & Health, Social Welfare, Women & Gender Issues. Many of their resources are available to buy and rent online via vimeo.
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- https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Biology, History, Literature, Mathematics, Media Studies, Music, Nature, Physics, Politics and Government, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases
This sister site to MIT World offers a vast array of educational content from the courses run at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology including lecture notes, readings and other study materials. By the end of 2007 it Had set itself the aim to have practically all its course materials online although this has proved hard to sustain. The courses range from Chemistry, Economics, History, Literature and Physics and these can be downloaded as zip files.
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- http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/homefront/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History, Social Welfare, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This resource brings together a collection of unique moving images illustrating what life was like for ordinary people in Britain during the Second World War, as seen through amateur documentaries, newsreels, government films, and home movies. The clips can be browsed by such themes as Children in wartime, displaced people, home & family life, victory celebrations and others or though a simple timeline, from 1936 to 1963. It showcases moving images from seven regional screen archives and collections based around the UK. Many of the films are in colour and offer excellent supporting and contextual essays and assorted bits of information as well as detailed synopses. Windows Media Player or QuickTime are required.
Also of interest is On The Home Front a joint project between Screen Archive South East and Whitehawk Primary School, in which primary school children learned about World War II through the use of archive film and working with local people who remember life on the Home Front.
Other Online Moving image
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- http://www.wmm.com
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Film Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Distributors, Streaming/Download, Web Links
Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women, and is the largest distributor of women’s media in North America. The site includes its film and video catalogue of almost 500 titles, with synopses, critical comments, filmmaker biographies, and a few (elusive) press kits, study guides and video clip previews. There is a good links section on various aspects of women and film.
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- http://www.jeanettewinterson.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Art, Literature, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
The homepage of this British writer contains graphics and audio clips available through Flash. The site also features a monthly column, book recommendations and some of her most recent journalism, as well as a link to a the webcast of a talk she gave at the Tate in January 2002 which can be viewed with Real.
Other Online Moving image 
Audio
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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Biology, Classics, Current Affairs, Drama, Economics, Education, Film Studies, General Science, Geography, Geology, History, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Politics and Government, Radio Studies, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Social Welfare, Sports Science, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Producers/Broadcasters
A site which brings together podcasts from the BBC available on i-Player. Programmes can be searched by genre (e.g. Drama, Religion & Ethics, News) or channel. Searches on educational level can also be made (e.g. Pre-school, Secondary, Adults).
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Learning on Screen