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- Link
- http://www.insightnewstv.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
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- 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This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 14/08/2014.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.
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- Link
- https://www.webofstories.com/
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- 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
- http://www.pbs.org/saf/
- Category
- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Archaeology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Engineering, Environmental Studies, General Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Nature, Physics, Psychology, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
Scientific American Frontiers is an American television series hosted by Alan Alda and broadcast on PBS. Its site gives the current TV schedule, teaching materials, and a very impressive video archive of past programmes, searchable by topic or keyword. This offers either complete programmes or segments using Real or Windows Media Player, for low or high-band connections, with most having an accompanying transcript where users can click on a particular point in the transcript to access that point in the video. Topics covered include archaeology, astronomy, biology/nature, chemistry/physics, computers/technology, earth science, engineering/mathematics, medicine/health, and psychology/cognitive science. Some have links to PBS web features, teaching guides etc.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- http://www.ideachannel.com
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- 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://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/academy/
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- Social Sciences
- Subject
- Medicine, Sports Science
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
Excellent new site from the BBC, giving a wide range of advice, information and instruction on football, cricket, golf, tennis, rugby union, rugby league, athletics, basketball, swimming and other sports. Each sport has a video masterclass (e.g. for cricket, Ian Salisbury demonstrating spin bowling and Mark Ramprakash showing batting strokes; for football, the Fulham Ladies show how to get past defenders), information on equipment, rules, and how to take part across the country, as well as special features, interviews with stars, and plenty of illustrative material. There is also a ‘Disability’ section for each sport, a ‘virtual gym’, and advice on diet and sports injuries. The video requires RealPlayer, and is available for modem and broadband connections.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- http://www.spielbergfilmarchive.org.il
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Ethnology, Film Studies, History
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The Steven Spielberg Film Archive at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem holds the world’s largest collection of Jewish documentary film footage. Its ‘Virtual Cinema’ is now streaming over 100 titles from the collection (using Windows Media Player), divided into Jewish Communities, Holocaust, Pre-State, State of Israel and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The ‘cinema’ presentation of the films is particularly attractive. Information on the individual titles is scanty, but the Archive’s catalogue is available elsewhere on the site.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- http://www.theyrule.net
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Art, Politics and Government
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
Site combing Flash animation with political statement. Allows the user to create maps out of interlocking directories of the top 100 companies in the USA in 2001, or to view maps create by other users (e.g. Pepsi vs Coke, Bill Gates rules them all).
Other Online
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- Link
- http://accent.gmu.edu
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- Social Sciences
- Subject
- Languages
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
This George Mason University site examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph. Ninety-one national origins are covered from Afrikaans to Zulu. Details of nationality, age, sex, residence and the means by which they learned English are given. The paragraph each person reads has been chosen for containing most of the consonants, vowels, and clusters of standard American English: 'Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station'. The audio files use QuickTime.
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- Link
- http://www.bbcactivevideoforlearning.com/1/Home.aspx
- Category
- 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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Record only
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- Link
- http://www.uh.edu/admin/engines/engines.htm
- Category
- 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.
Learning on Screen
