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- http://www.screenonline.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, History, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Reviews, Streaming/Download
This growing resource of materials is aimed at media studies students and hails from the British Film Institute. It includes several thousand individual items, including biographies of British film and television personnel, including actors, writers, directors, producers, composers, cinematographers. These can be searched by name or via an alphabetical list. The database incorporates some material from the recently published Encyclopedia of British Film and from the forthcoming Reference Guide to British and Irish Film Directors and evenly covers both television and film. It also includes stills, posters, scripts and other fascinating items. One of its most exciting features is the vast amount of material that can be viewed on the site, much of which comes from the BFI’s National Film and Television Archive. This is only available to schools, colleges, universities and public libraries on their premises and not elsewhere. These include extensive clips from rare and obscure film and television titles as well as entire episodes from such classic TV shows as Fawlty Towers. The streamed material can be viewed with QuickTime, Real and Windows Media Player and cannot be downloaded for copyright reasons.
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- http://www.wochenschau-archiv.de
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Current Affairs, German Studies, History, Politics and Government
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The Federal Film Archives, Berlin, are digitising the Deutsche Wocheschau newsreel collection of German newsreels from 1949 and making them freely available over the internet. Over 6,000 stories have been issued so far, for lowband (56K) or broadband (250K) connections, using Windows Media Player.. The latter requires registration. Each clips comes with ‘storyboard’ and background information, and searching is by freetext, or by topic, personality, date or location. There are English language and German language versions of the site, but catalogue descriptions are in German only. The commentaries on the newsreels are, of course, in German.
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- http://www.ina.fr/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Current Affairs, History, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
The French national repository for broadcast archives, INA holds two main bodies of material. Firstly it is the audiovisual archive for French national radio and television stations, dating back to the 1930s (radio) and 1940s (newsreels). INA is also the French legal deposit archive and holds two million hours of broadcasts from nearly 100 television stations and twenty radio stations. In order to fulfil its public access remit INA has made available online over 25,000 hours of rights-cleared content, which can be viewed freely on the website but also bought on a pay-per-download basis. The collections are searchable by Theme, Personality, Programme and Decade. See also the educational website Jalons
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- Link
- http://www.bbcactivevideoforlearning.com/1/Home.aspx
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Business Studies, Classics, Drama, Engineering, Environmental Studies, History, Nature, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Video Sources
Formerly the BBC’s Videos for Learning and Teaching and more recently known as BBC Active, this is an important catalogue for the wide-ranging video tapes of previously transmitted programmes offered by the Corporation to educational institutions. Sadly, as part of its rebranding, the prices have increased up by up to a factor of five (the average cost per title is now £125). The material however remains irreplaceable. It includes such classic documentaries as Life on Earth, The Ascent of Man and items from the Horizon series as well as the perennial BBC Shakespeare titles. These can be by title or contributor, as well as by series and by the following subject categories: Anthropology, the Arts, Business, Drama, Education, Engineering, Environment, Literature, Health & Medicine, History, Natural World, Science & Technology and Social Issues. These titles can also be licensed separately for online learning, festival screenings and exhibitions. Please note that only a small part of the holdings are listed online and it is a good idea to request titles directly.
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- https://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, History, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Footage Sources
The BFI National Archive is the national collection of film and television, comprising some 600,000 titles. It aims to collect, preserve, restore and then share the UK’s moving image heritage. The site includes information on preservation, catalogues, research access, footage sales and special projects. The catalogues include such subjects as the Boer War, British Silent Comedy Films, DVD Hire, Ethnic Notions, Spanish Civil War, and Disability and the Moving Image. It also includes the BFI collection of stills, posters and designs. The Archive’s film and television holdings are included in the BFI’s Film and TV Database. A member of the Film Archives UK body (formerly Film Archives Forum).
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- http://www.uh.edu/admin/engines/engines.htm
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- History, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Streaming/Download
The Engines of Our Ingenuity is an American radio programme telling the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. The programme web site houses the transcripts for every episode heard since the show’s inception in 1988. Streaming audio is available on each of the posted episodes (using Real). The wide range of subjects over nearly 2,000 episodes include Leon Theremin, the number zero, windmills, the camera obscura, mind reading, mousetraps and paperclips, the Lunar Society, and Food in Early Texas.
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- http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources
Site gathering together the logic-defying pronouncements to the news media of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information, who rose to fame during the 2003 Iraq war.
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- http://endorphin.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Biology, Environmental Studies, Geography, Media Studies, Music, Nature, Photography, Sports Science
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This video subscription service offers very high quality QuickTime movies. The very high resolution samples on this site are of quite spectacular quality, but will require at 150mbs of free memory to play or the computer will crash. A few clips are available free, but otherwise a subscription is required. The movies are organised by genre (people, places, music, events etc.).
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- Link
- http://www.silent-dvd.net
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources
A bilingual index available in French and English of silent films available on DVD, covering discs encoded for Regions 1, 2 and 4. Simply but effectively designed, one can search alphabetically by film title, actor and publisher (listed as "editor", one of the few errors left over from its French language origins). Although not much detail is given about individual titles per se, the covers of most of the discs have been scanned in. A limited but very useful amateur site that supports this still under resourced part of the world’s film heritage.
This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 29/02/2012. This does not include access to the moving images.
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- Link
- http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Main?action=new
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical
- Subject
- Art, Film Studies, Media Studies, Medicine
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases
This functional and easy-to-use site features a bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art in general that relates to Medical Humanities and includes links to some substantial video extracts as well as an alphabetical index to reviews of films which relate to medicine in some way, including such disparate titles as 21 Grams, The Body Snatcher, The English Patient, Ikiru Lorenzo’s Oil and dozens of others. There are also detailed sections devoted to medicine in literature and fine art which combine to produce a fascinating and varied introduction to the way that health and healers have been represented over the centuries.
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