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The project focuses on five of the Yorkshire houses with significant standing ruins: Fountains, Rievaulx, and Byland principally, but also Roche and Kirkstall. The architecture of each site, explained in the context of other local churches (and European Cistercian abbeys), will open visual and textual windows onto the Cistercian way of life as experienced by the monks, the lay-brothers and their secular neighbours. Only partially completed, this project currently offers fascinating virtual tours of parts of the Kirkstall, Rievaulx and Roche Abbeys as well as a wealth of ancillary material.
This extremely large site incorporates much fascinating material relating to the history of the Staffordshire region, told in photographic stills and artist’s representations and occasionally audio, which will require Windows Media Player, while to view some of the documents QuickTime will be required.
Previously known as Light Cone Video, since 1994 this company has specialised in the distribution of avant-garde film and video titles. A number of brief QuickTime extracts can be viewed on their website, which is both in French and English, and feature the work of such luminaries as Hans Richter, Andy Warhol, Maya Deren, Oskar Fischinger and the late Stan Brakhage.
The American Film Institute Silent Film Web site contains over 25,000 entries for silent American films made between 1893 and 1930. Entries for silent films produced after 1911 are for feature-length films only. Detailed information on cast, crew, plot summaries, subjects, genres and historical notes are included for each film. Entries for approximately 750 silent feature films also include information on availability and sources for VHS (NTSC) tapes, Laserdiscs and DVDs (Region 1). It is possible to search by title, personality and company names but also, more intriguingly, by character name as well as by literary source and by related music and song titles. For all that, the site has very few prompts as to what is contained in this vast resource and unfortunately it will be of most immediate use to those that have a good idea of what is likely to be in it to begin with.
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