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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
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- Radio/Sound
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- 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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- https://www.britmovie.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Databases
Dedicated to British cinema, this site includes a number of mini biographies of prominent actors, directors and technicians as well as studios. There are also entries for hundreds of films that can be searched alphabetically or by genre, as well as a number of useful forums where fans can exchange views and information.
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- https://archive.org/.php
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Advertising, Agriculture, American Studies, Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Business Studies, Chemistry, Classics, Computing, Crafts, Current Affairs, Dance, Dentistry, Design, Development Studies, Drama, Economics, Education, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Ethnology, Film Studies, Food, French Studies, General Science, Genetics, Geography, Geology, German Studies, History, Information Studies, Languages, Law, Literature, Mathematics, Media Studies, Medicine, Music, Nature, Photography, Physics, Politics and Government, Psychiatry, Psychology, Radio Studies, Religious Studies, Russian Studies, Social Welfare, Sports Science, Technology, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Databases, Information Sources
Part of the Internet Archive, which also covers archived moving images (The Internet Moving Images Archive), audio and software, the Wayback Machine holds cached versions of thousands of websites and billions of pages, allowing users to look at sites that are no longer available or at earlier versions of ones that are still around. An invaluable resource that, due to the gigantic nature of the holdings, is slightly hampered by the fact that no list of the holdings can be easily provided. This means inevitably that correct recall of the URL in question is necessary, or failing that, searching for it on the web first.
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- http://www.nfdb.nl/
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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
Available in both Dutch and English-language versions, the database can be searched by title, personality and organisation and lists over 20,000 individual film and television titles. These searches can also be refined quite narrowly by year, genre and even by whether the film is in colour or not. The entries are brief but to the point and all entries are properly and thoroughly cross-indexed.
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- http://www.filmcentre.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
Aimed at budding filmmakers, this rather overpopulated website includes a searchable database of over 7,000 short films as well as useful advice on legal matters, a glossary of technical film terms, a list of upcoming film festivals and a large section devoted to the hiring of equipment and film crews, although this is organised alphabetically by first name and not by surname. Despite the less than stellar layout and occasional eccentricities, the hundreds of CVs and variety of listings make this a very worthwhile site. (NB In June 2011 the short film and crew databases were ‘temporarily offline’.
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- http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Architecture, History, Religious Studies
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- Film/Video
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The project focuses on five of the Yorkshire houses with significant standing ruins: Fountains, Rievaulx, and Byland principally, but also Roche and Kirkstall. The architecture of each site, explained in the context of other local churches (and European Cistercian abbeys), will open visual and textual windows onto the Cistercian way of life as experienced by the monks, the lay-brothers and their secular neighbours. Only partially completed, this project currently offers fascinating virtual tours of parts of the Kirkstall, Rievaulx and Roche Abbeys as well as a wealth of ancillary material.
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- http://www.archive.sln.org.uk
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Architecture, Ethnology, History
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- Radio/Sound
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- Databases, Information Sources
This extremely large site incorporates much fascinating material relating to the history of the Staffordshire region, told in photographic stills and artist’s representations and occasionally audio, which will require Windows Media Player, while to view some of the documents QuickTime will be required.
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- http://www.re-voir.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Art, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Video Sources
Previously known as Light Cone Video, since 1994 this company has specialised in the distribution of avant-garde film and video titles. A number of brief QuickTime extracts can be viewed on their website, which is both in French and English, and feature the work of such luminaries as Hans Richter, Andy Warhol, Maya Deren, Oskar Fischinger and the late Stan Brakhage.
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- https://www.afi.com/members/catalog/silentHome.aspx?s=1
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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
The American Film Institute Silent Film Web site contains over 25,000 entries for silent American films made between 1893 and 1930. Entries for silent films produced after 1911 are for feature-length films only. Detailed information on cast, crew, plot summaries, subjects, genres and historical notes are included for each film. Entries for approximately 750 silent feature films also include information on availability and sources for VHS (NTSC) tapes, Laserdiscs and DVDs (Region 1). It is possible to search by title, personality and company names but also, more intriguingly, by character name as well as by literary source and by related music and song titles. For all that, the site has very few prompts as to what is contained in this vast resource and unfortunately it will be of most immediate use to those that have a good idea of what is likely to be in it to begin with.
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