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- http://anthropology.si.edu/naa/home/naahome.html
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- Social Sciences
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- Ethnology, History
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Organisations
Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the NAA includes the Human Studies Film Archives, founded in 1975 as the National Anthropological Film Center at the instigation of a small group of committed anthropologists and filmmakers. The fully searchable catalogue to the collection of world ethnographic film is available online, as is the rest of the Smithsonian Institution catalogue.
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- https://americanindian.si.edu/
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- Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Ethnology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Festivals, Information Sources, Web Links
Native Networks is produced by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. It provides information on media production from Native American communities (North and South), covering film, video and radio. The site includes feature presentations, news, and a media catalogue of titles featured at the Museum’s Native American Film and Video Festivals, searchable by title, tribe, director and region. It has links to a wide range of related media resources. In English and Spanish.
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- http://www.arabfilm.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Ethnology, Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Video Sources
The titles in this online catalogue can be searched either by country of origin (Iran, Yemen, Egypt, Pakistan etc), personality or by title. Some of the titles have sample clips (available either using Real or MediaPlayer) and the site also sells related books. Each entry includes production credits as well as year, genre, running time, language and subtitle options and are supplied on either DVD or NTSC VHS tapes, though PAL copies can be arranged.
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- http://www.africafilmtv.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Ethnology, Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Journals
Based in Zimbabwe, this subscription publication is made up of weekly online updates, a quarterly print journal and the annual Africa Film & TV Yearbook Directory, all of which provide, either in English of French, industry information relating to film and video production in Africa. The web version provides access to a national filmography which has been divided into regions, the latest news, a calendar of relevant dates, a fully searchable archive for the weekly updates going back to 2000 and a discussion forum.
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- http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/oral/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Ethnology, History, Social Studies
- Type of resource
- Information Sources
This website offers a place for students and teachers to begin working with oral history interviews as historical evidence. Written by Linda Shopes of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, this guide presents an overview of oral history and ways historians use it, tips on what questions to ask when reading or listening to oral history interviews, a sample interpretation of an interview, an annotated bibliography, and a guide to finding and using oral history online.
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- http://www.superchannel.org
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Ethnology, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Based in Denmark, Superchannel is a commercial company that since 1999 has provided access to web TV by providing a space for individuals or groups to make their own programmes. It currently hosts 28 channels and 1098 shows. Most of them are based in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden with some channels from Italy and Thailand. Access is via a web-based Content Management System and the content is managed entirely by the channel’s operators. There are discussion forums open during the initial broadcast and then the programmes are archived and will require RealPlayer to be viewed.
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Moving image
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- Link
- https://sounds.bl.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Art, Design, Drama, Ethnology, History, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Politics and Government, Technology
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
This British Library Sound Archive online resource comprises 40,000 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments. Anyone can search or browse the information on this site and listen to 23,000 of the recordings, but for copyright reasons only people in licensed UK higher and further education institutions, or in the BL’s reading rooms, can play the remaining recordings. Downloading is available in licensed institutions. The collections to be featured are popular music tracks (mostly British bands from the 1930s to 1990s), African Writers’ Club (250 hours on art, literature, music and politics), Art and design interviews (e.g. Denys Lasdun, Eduardo Paolozzi, Paula Rego), Beethoven String Quartets (750 recordings from the last 100 years), David Rycroft Africa recordings (music and poetry, mainly from Southern Africa), Klaus Wachsmann Uganda recordings (1,500 recordings from 26 culture groups), Oral history of jazz in Britain (with musicians, promoters and label-owners), Records and record players (developments in recording technology), Sony Radio Awards - drama (every short-listed play 1986-1997), Soundscapes (evocative environmental sounds from Great Britain and Canada) and St Mary-le-Bow public debates (e.g. John Betjeman, Jonathan Miller, Diana Rigg). The project as been funded as part of the JISC digitisation Programme.
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- http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/
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- Social Sciences
- Subject
- Development Studies, Environmental Studies, Ethnology, Geography, Politics and Government
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
A website streaming programmes from the WORLD series developed by FRONTLINE producers in conjunction with public television stations KQED San Francisco and WGBH Boston. The programmes focus on current affairs issues from around the world, covering countries and cultures rarely seen on American television.The online archive includes programmes broadcast since May 2002. There is online documentation relating to each programme. Uses Real Player. Copies of some programmes are available for purchase on DVD/
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- http://www.humanetho.de/en/eindex.html
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- Social Sciences
- Subject
- Ethnology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums
The Film Archive of Human Ethology of the Max-Planck-Society and Human Studies Center at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich is an archive of ethnographic film, for study at the archive only and not for distribution. A full catalogue listing is given.
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- http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/visualising_ethnography/index.html
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- Social Sciences
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- Ethnology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources
Visualising Ethnography is a resource and gateway site for students and researchers using visual methods of research and representation in ethnographic projects. It has a range of links to existing on-line work in Visual Ethnography as well as publishing its own interviews with visual researchers and articles describing visual research projects.
This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 17/12/2006. This does not include access to the moving images.
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