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- https://womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Women’s Studies
- Type of resource
- Discussion Lists, Information Sources, Listserv
The Women’s Film & History Network UK/Ireland is a group of researchers, teachers, archivists, collections managers, students, professionals, and enthusiasts engaged in exploring the contributions women have made to the emergence and development of film and television. Their aim is to promote disseminating research into women’s participation in screen media, and exploring their wide range roles, including: scriptwriting, producing, directing, editing, and exhibition and cinema management.
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- http://film.britishcouncil.org/british-films-directory
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources
The British Council’s British Films Directory is an extensive searchable database of new British films containing a continuously expanding record of UK features, shorts, documentaries and animation. Its archive of British films extends back to 1998. Each entry contains a brief synopsis, along with information on the sales agent, production company, cast and crew. A separate section, Films in Production lists British feature films in progress either in pre-production, production, or post-production, prior to their inclusion in the British Films Directory. It also lists a film’s director, producers, screenwriter, cast, sales agent and production status.
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- https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Geography, History, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video
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- Databases, Information Sources, Organisations, Web Links
The CAIN (Conflict Archive on the InterNet) website, located at the University of Ulster, contains information and source material on ‘the Troubles’ and politics in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. There is also some material on society in the region and a selection of digitised records from the National Archives of Ireland and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. The main sections are: Background to the Conflict; Key Events; Key Issues, Databases and Bibliographies, Northern Ireland Society and Conflict Studies. The films section lists films with ‘the Troubles’ as the theme. There is also video footage of a selection of Physical Memorials in public spaces. The videos contain no commentary and provide enough detail for users to be able to read inscriptions.
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- http://www.londonssilentcinemas.com
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Architecture, Film Studies, History
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources
London’s Silent Cinemas explores the history of cinema exhibition in London from the emergence of permanent film venues in 1906 to the end of the silent film era c1930. It documents the early lives of over 700 cinemas across London and its suburbs, using information gathered from local histories, city council records, film trade journals and directories, cinema programmes, street directories and historic maps and plans. This information can be accessed using the interactive London’s Silent Cinemas Map.
Other special features include a guide to the History of London’s cinemas, and online Exhibitions, including an in-depth view of Cinema and the West End, 1906-1930. London’s Silent Cinemas is intended as a resource for cinema researchers and teachers, historians and anyone interested in the early days of film exhibition in London.
London’s Silent Cinemas was developed by Dr Chris O’Rourke, using research undertaken during a Research Associateship funded by the UCL Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects (CHIRP). The elegant website was designed and built by Sam Nightingale.
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- http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Art
LADA is a ‘Centre for Live Art’: a knowledge centre, a production centre for programmes and publications, a research centre setting artists and ideas in motion, and an online centre for digital experimentation, representation and dissemination. The LADA shop sells over 90 DVDs on experimental and performance art.
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- https://www.filmsite.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Reviews
Filmsite.org is a film-review website established in 1996 by film critic Tim Dirks, and owned since 2008 by AMC. The site contains over 300 reviews of what Dirks judges to be the greatest films of all time. In some cases, a review goes through the film scene-by-scene. The site also contains many other lists, and pages offering an introduction to cinema literacy. Other features include a section for "Greatest Films of the Year" and summaries of the Academy Awards.
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- http://www.avgeeks.com.
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- American Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
The A/V Geeks Film Archive is an American 16mm educational film collection curated by Skip Elsheimer housing over 24,000 films gathered from school auctions, thrift stores, attics and rubbish tips. Many titles are available for sale on DVD. The films are searchable by broad theme (religion, experiments caught on film, propaganda, telephone). Compilation videos are also for sale including topics such as factories and assembly lines, films from the 1950 and sex education. Because of the manner in which the films were acquired the technical quality is highly variable. The majority of titles can be shipped overseas.
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- https://ecommerce.umass.edu/defa/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, German Studies, History
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Festivals, Information Sources
The DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is an archive and research centre devoted to a broad spectrum of filmmaking from, and related to, former East Germany and the GDR. It houses an extensive collection of 35mm and 16mm prints, DVDs, books, periodicals and articles. The Library supports an international network of researchers with a range of regular programming — such as biennial Summer Film Institutes and Filmmaker’s Tours, and workshops and panel discussions at major conferences in the US and Europe that helps shape national and international research on [East] German cinema during the global Cold War and on related films from Germany and elsewhere. The DVDs offered for sale are listed in the Store.
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- http://www.ecfaweb.org/network.htm
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Festivals, Information Sources, Web Links
The European Children’s Film Network is a database service offered by ECFA (European Children’s Film Association). The databases are intended as sources of information on European high-quality films for children and young people in order to help to improve their distribution and the marketing. The website was started in 1999, covering most films for children that were produced in European countries since that year, including some films that were produced a few years earlier, but appeared at festivals or in distributions in 1999 or later. The database gives title (and titles in other languages), production country, running time, director, synopsis and festivals where it has been screened.
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- https://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Social Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
London Sound Survey is a growing collection of creative commons-licensed sound recordings of people, places and events in the capital. Historical references are gathered to find out how London’s sounds have changed. Topics covered are eclectic including auctions, market traders, charity fundraising, fairgrounds and amusements, soapbox orators, calls to worship and beggars and hustlers. Contextual information includes date of recording, the name of the recorder, location, summary of content and technical details of the recording. A sound map enables users to identify the sounds of a particular area of London.
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