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- http://www.birdlife.org/
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- Bio-Medical
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- Biology, Nature
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- Databases, Information Sources, Lists, Organisations, Web Links
BirdLife groups together over 120 organisations worldwide that strive to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity. Their website includes a Data Zone section which presents a wealth of scientific data on the world’s bird species and the sites critical to their conservation. This information can be easily viewed at national and territorial level using the Country Profiles searching capabilities; there is also a Case Studies section, and a Seabird Tracking Database, which contains the largest collection of seabird data in the world. This data can be searched and viewed within the site, but access to the actual data is restricted.
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- http://www.scottishcinemas.org.uk/index.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Architecture, Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums, Lists
Website dedicated to recording and archiving the architectural history of all Scottish purpose built cinemas, with particular emphasis on the cinemas of Glasgow and Edinburgh. There is a section listing all the cinemas that currently hold a ‘listed building’ status, with photographs and links to the Historic Scotland official description. It is also possible to search for a particular cinema by name, address, town, architect and status via the Scottish Cinema Database.
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- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWhTJDazgMDkZYOw91OyRKf7Zsia1a9Qu
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Art, Economics, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download
Founded in 1919, the New School university in New York City is a leading academic centre for the development of artists and designers. Amongst its notable alumni there are world-renowned names in the fields of literature, visual arts and performing arts including James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, Mario Puzo, Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis, Walter Matthau, Paul Dano, Ai Weiwei, Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs. Via their you tube channel the New School offers the Public Programs Express, which is an ongoing series of interviews with prominent speakers such as Thomas Piketty, bell hooks, Naomi Klein, Ai Weiwei, Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis and Christina Greer. The interviews –so far some 61- are displayed as two-to-five minutes clips or highlights, but can be accessed in their entirety by clicking on the ‘show more’ and then the ‘bonus material’ links.
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- https://filmography.bfi.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Film Studies, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Databases
Who is the most prolific British female director? Which subjects feature in British horror films? Which countries have co-produced British feature films? These are the kinds of question we can now easily find answers for. After a few years in the making the BFI has finally published an online compilation of UK feature films released to cinemas from the beginning of film history until now. As well as presenting a broad overview of the UK film industry, the BFI have mapped other information onto each of the film titles (e.g. people and companies involved) to enrich and provide unique insights into UK film history. This information should be of interest to film buffs, journalists, researchers, or anyone with an interest in UK film and/or history. It is searchable with shareable data visualisations on a dedicated BFI Filmography web platform or record by record on via the Collections Search.
The Filmography is a dynamic resource, and the underlying data is constantly being reviewed and updated.
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- http://edn.network/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Information Sources, Lists, Organisations, Podcasting, Web Links
EDN is a meeting point for all documentary professionals working in the film and TV industries. It has around 1000 members from more than 60 countries, including production companies, producers, directors and other film professionals, distributors, associations, film institutions & boards, broadcasters, universities and festivals. The key service of EDN are to provide information to its members on co-production and other kinds of collaboration across borders, the international potential of a project, where to take a finished film, distribution, festivals and markets, the EU MEDIA Programme and other funding options, documentary training programmes and production contacts in other countries.
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- http://www.filmaf.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Databases, Lists, Web Links
This website defines itself as ‘your favourite spot for film collecting’ and offers a quick and friendly way of finding films which have been released for home entertainment. The content is organised under two main tabs, Find DVDs and Find Blu-ray and searches can be limited to USA, UK, Canada or other countries. Further filters can be applied by selecting a specific release week; links to relevant retail outlets are also provided. The home page lists the ‘100 most collected directors’ and a link to their own Youtube Channel which offers help on how to pick ‘good’ titles, how to find films by ‘your favourite director’ and how to use ‘UPC importer’ to add your online collection to their database.
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- http://remarc.bbcrewind.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The BBC Reminiscence Archive provides access to a selection of content from the BBC Archives, designed to support reminiscence therapy. The principle of reminiscence therapy is to assist people who have dementia to interact and converse in a natural way by stimulating their long-term memory with material from the past. A number of reminiscence systems have been developed for people with dementia. RemArc is the BBC’s contribution to this growing set of supports for people with dementia and their carers. The site is organised by Themes (such as Animals, Music, Sport, Events etc.) and Decades. Users can choose whether to have Image, Audio or Video content. The results are randomised each visit, however items can be ‘favourited’ to return to later and there is an ‘information’ icon which displays a brief description of the item being viewed.
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- http://www.mcc.sllf.qmul.ac.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, Reviews
This website publishes work written by students and staff of the film studies department at Queen Mary, University of London. It focuses on contemporary US, German and Russian cinema in the form of in-depth accounts of individual films such as DER UNTERTANG/DOWNFALL, SPRING BRAKERS and THE HURT LOCKER. Each film analysis is accompanied by a ‘film note’, which includes basic production and distribution information as well as box office takings. The site also publishes short guides on a range of different themes including ‘cinemetrics’ (ie measuring and visualising movie data), ‘witchsploitation films’, the ‘sensory ethnographic film’, ‘motion capture’and ‘product placement’.
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- https://www.hse.gov.uk
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- Social Sciences
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- Law
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
HSE is an independent regulator for work-related health, safety and illness and provides advice and guidance on health and safety legislation. Their website makes available a wide range of free and paid resources. The HSE videos page offers a selection on topics and industries including Agriculture, Business, Construction, Woodworking, Manual handling tasks, Breathing CO2, Mesothelioma, and Getting dermatitis. Audio resources include a Demonstration of Noise Induced Hearing Loss, Talking Leaflets on gas safety, homeworking and occupational health and a compilation of podcasts dating back to 2008 on topics including workplace transport, emerging energy technologies, asbestos, noise and vibration at work, construction inspections and gas safety.
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- https://www.jarmanlab.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Courses, Streaming/Download
Chaired by Professor Colin MacCabe and supported both by Birkbeck and the University of Pittsburgh, The Derek Jarman Lab is devoted to research-led film making. Apart from offering training courses on filmmaking, the Jarman Lab organises events, produces films (e.g. The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger) and encourages moving image research. Some of the resulting training films can be watched on their vimeo channel, including Spaces of Psychoanalysis (2016), Twins on Twins (2017), The Many Lives of a Shield (2016) Fallen Women (2016) and Deciphering Codes (2017).
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