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- Link
- http://www.britishfilm.org.uk/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources
This nicely cross-referenced introductory level resource provides overviews of a number of themes, events and personalities relating to British film and television. The site includes overviews of author Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective, the films of Humphrey Jennings, 1980s British Cinema, the contribution made by Channel Four as well as an extensive look at the work of David Lynch.
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Record only
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- Link
- http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/bbcmotiongallery#
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Biology, Ethnology, Geography, Media Studies, Nature
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Footage Sources, Streaming/Download
Part of the BBC’s commercial arm, the BBC Motion Gallery includes footage from its archives as well as those of CBS in the United States and is primarily a footage resource for companies in the commercial sector. However, the site also features hundreds of streamed samples of its wares (some lasting only a few seconds), which can be searched by subject and viewed freely via Windows Media Player. The items are adequately encoded and categories include Animals, Business, Places, Nature, News & Events, Science & Technology, Travel, Sport and others. In addition to which there are a huge number of keywords (although there is no actual list to access), as well as pre-organised ‘Concepts’ such as Flirting, Danger, Action and so on which are listed alphabetically. The advanced search makes use of disguised Boolean Search operators but also allows for searches to be limited to format, colour and aspect ratio. It effectively operates as an index to the whole BBC archive. Registration is required but is free and all clips feature BBC digital onscreen graphics as watermarks. In Nov 2007 a new online service was launched in partnership with JISC, to give UK FE and HE institutions access to a selection of footage for use in an educational setting via a password-protected site http://www.jiscmotiongallery.com. At the end of 2009 the Motion Gallery launched the World in Motion channel on Youtube to show high definition clips of programmes such as NOTES ON A CITY.
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Online 
Moving image
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- Link
- https://www.mrqe.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Reviews
The extremely useful MRQE website claims to provide links to 400,000 online reviews from a huge variety of sources for some 40,000 movies. The layout is simple in the extreme, but the site works well - searches can be carried out using simple Boolean operators and there is a prompt taking you to preselected lists, such as Recent releases in the UK, Most popular titles (last week) or specific titles that appeared in various festivals at Cannes or the Academy Awards. Foreign language titles can also be searched successfully, although it is restricted to the Roman alphabet.
Other Record only
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- Link
- http://www.insightnewstv.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Current Affairs, Development Studies, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethnology, Politics and Government, Social Welfare, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
This London-based independent news organisation not only offers short courses on factual film-making but also supplies international video coverage to such major organisations as CNN, Channel Four, the BBC and many others. The website offers some two dozen streamed stories (requiring Windows Media Player) from around the globe, adequately encoded and lasting on average between ten and fifteen minutes each. Half a dozen full-length titles are also offered for sale on DVD. The subjects covered include famine in Ethiopia, unrest in Sierra Leone as well as the fortunes of West African migrants as well as reports from Burma, Bangladesh, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Israel and several other countries.
This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 14/08/2014. This does not include access to the moving images.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- https://www.webofstories.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Biology, Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Physics
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
Previously known as People’s Archive is a service "dedicated to collecting for posterity the stories of the great thinkers and creators of our time". Currently it features detailed interviews with biologists, filmmakers, physicists, mathematicians and craftsmen from various fields. Oddly all the interview subjects were initially male currently, but presumably this was coincidental and is slowly being addressed - currently there are interviews with Diana Athill, Dorothy Hodgkin, Paula Rego, Denise Scott Brown and Gitta Sereny. The archive currently contains over 200 items totaling over 100 hours. The clips have been very well encoded. A well organised resource which is very effectively segmented, it offers good transcriptions of all interviews and provides valuable oral histories. Subdivided into Remarkable People and Great Lives, with the latter organised into Arts, Politics and Science.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- https://www.cbc.ca/archives/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, French Studies, History, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Courses, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, and its site showcases radio and TV clips from its long history. The clips are organised both thematically and by decade and require Windows MediaPlayer. One can also take a virtual tour of the archive, which also contains much ancillary material which serves to put the large amount of data in context. Highlights include footage of De Gaulle’s inflammatory ‘Vive le Québec libre!' speech, Expo 67, coverage of the 1952 Coronation and this interview with Neil Young from 1969 in which he discusses his reasons for leaving the Buffalo Springfield.
Other Online Moving image 
Audio
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- Link
- http://webguide.awn.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Art, Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Streaming/Download
Sadly partially inactive since March 2001, the motto of this site was "We scour the net so you don’t have to!" and it frequently lived up to its boast. it includes recent news items, links to animation companies, a ‘Pick-of-the-Week’ section as well as featured animations. The main sections of the Animation World Network (q.v. separate entry) remain valuable and up-to-date however.
This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 16/03/2016. This does not include access to the moving images.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- http://www.ideachannel.com
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Economics, Environmental Studies, Literature, Medicine, Music, Physics, Politics and Government, Psychology, Social Welfare
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download, Video Sources
An extensive collection of video and audio clips taken from interviews with scientists and scholars, including several Nobel Prize winners (Milton Friedman, Ilya Prigogine, Norman Borlaug, John F. Nash, Linus Pauling and others), available as streamed audio or video (a number are listed as being available shortly), with complete videos or transcripts available for purchase. The site is clearly arranged and described, and is categorised under Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computing Science, Culture, Economics, Environment, Health/Medicine, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- http://www.quentincrisp.com/index.html
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Literature
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
This site celebrates the life of Quentin Crisp, the actor and raconteur who finally found fame in the 1970s with the publication of his autobiography The Naked Civil Servant, which was filmed for television in 1975, with John Hurt in the lead role. Crisp subsequently left the UK and settled in New York, where he remained until his death in 1999. The site includes material from this later part of his life, including clips of Crisp speaking a number of his famous aphorisms and bon mots which can be viewed with QuickTime, as well as moving slide shows. The site also has a stills gallery as well as extracts from Crisp’s books.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- http://www.centuryinshoes.com
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Design, History
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
A multimedia cultural history of the shoe in the twentieth century, wittily and stylishly designed. The site divides the subject into decades, with the shoes of each decades viewable as rotating QuickTime videos, and short film clips being available to illustrated each decade, as well as more conventional text. The Flash introduction itself, illustrating a hundred years in shoes and sounds, is a tour de force in itself.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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