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  1. green.tv Streaming

    Link
    https://www.green.tv/?set_location=en
    Category
    Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Business Studies, Environmental Studies, Ethnology, Geography, Nature, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Information Sources, Streaming/Download, Video Sources

    green.tv, launched in March 2006, is a broadband tv channel for environmental films based in London and supported by the United Nations Environment Programme. It brings together films from a range of environmental organisations and independent filmmakers. It includes podcasts and RSS feeds. Videos are themed in the categories Business, Climate Change, Living, People, Transport, Technology, Nature,, and Energy. Partner channels featured on the site include UNEP (the United Nations Environment Programme), Greenpeace, IFAW (The International Fund for Animal Welfare), Friends of the Earth, New Consumer (championing fair trade and ethical living throughout the world), Friction.tv (an online platform for user generated news and opinion) and many more.

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  2. East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) Streaming

    Link
    https://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Drama, Ethnology, History
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    The archive holds a broad range of audio and video materials (alternately accessible via RealPlayer and Windows Media Player), most of which can be found in its online exhibitions.

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  3. BBC Video Nation Streaming

    Link
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/network/
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    Ethnology, History, Social Welfare
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    Inspired by the Mass-Observation movement of the 1930s onwards, the BBC Video Nation site has grown out of its Video Diaries programmes of the 1990s, where people were given Hi-8 video cameras and invited to record their lives of a year. Video Nation Online was launched in 2001 with 250 of the original shorts. The site has expanded to some 750 films, with strong English regional coverage. The films are classified by theme, special features, localities and contributor. The films are available in both narrowband (56k|ISDN) and broadband (256k+) formats.

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  4. Films of Anthropological and other "ancestors" Streaming

    Link
    http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/index.html
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    Ethnology
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Databases

    Alan Macfarlane at Cambridge University has been interviewing anthropologists, historians,ethno-musicologists and international travellers on video since the 1980s. Extracts from forty of these as well as the full interviews, often lasting between sixty and ninety minutes or more, can be found on this rudimentary but easy to use site and will require QuickTime to access. The full interviews (not all of which are available yet) are chaptered in reasonable detail and include useful metadata on the topics covered. The encoding is top notch, but some of the material was originally of poor quality and can therefore be a little hard to follow.

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  5. Haddon (inactive) Streaming

    Link
    http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/external/isca/haddon/HADD_home.html
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    Ethnology
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Databases

    Haddon is an online catalogue of archival ethnographic films and film footage shot 1898-1945. It is named after A.C. Haddon, the Cambridge ethnologist whose Cambridge University Expedition to the Torres Straits in 1898 pioneered the science of ethnology, and made use of film and sound recordings. The database comprises films from several collections worldwide, and includes many titles from the BFI National Archive, quoting from its own detailed shotlists.
    This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 27/08/2006. This does not include access to the moving images.

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  6. Leakey Foundation Streaming

    Link
    http://leakeyfoundation.org
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    Biology, Ethnology

    This anthropology site is very well designed and features a large number of audio lectures which can be streamed easily. Those speaking include Leslie Aiello, Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall, Margaret Mead and others. The lecturers have been usefully broken down into bite size chunks and the site also includes links to many useful other websites.

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  7. BBC Motion Gallery Streaming

    Link
    http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/bbcmotiongallery#
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Biology, Ethnology, Geography, Media Studies, Nature
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Footage Sources, Streaming/Download

    Part of the BBC’s commercial arm, the BBC Motion Gallery includes footage from its archives as well as those of CBS in the United States and is primarily a footage resource for companies in the commercial sector. However, the site also features hundreds of streamed samples of its wares (some lasting only a few seconds), which can be searched by subject and viewed freely via Windows Media Player. The items are adequately encoded and categories include Animals, Business, Places, Nature, News & Events, Science & Technology, Travel, Sport and others. In addition to which there are a huge number of keywords (although there is no actual list to access), as well as pre-organised ‘Concepts’ such as Flirting, Danger, Action and so on which are listed alphabetically. The advanced search makes use of disguised Boolean Search operators but also allows for searches to be limited to format, colour and aspect ratio. It effectively operates as an index to the whole BBC archive. Registration is required but is free and all clips feature BBC digital onscreen graphics as watermarks. In Nov 2007 a new online service was launched in partnership with JISC, to give UK FE and HE institutions access to a selection of footage for use in an educational setting via a password-protected site http://www.jiscmotiongallery.com. At the end of 2009 the Motion Gallery launched the World in Motion channel on Youtube to show high definition clips of programmes such as NOTES ON A CITY.

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  8. Insight News TV (inactive) Streaming

    Link
    http://www.insightnewstv.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
    Subject
    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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  9. Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive Streaming

    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.

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  10. Remembering Slavery Streaming

    Link
    http://rememberingslavery.soundprint.org/audio.html
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Ethnology
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Information Sources

    This accompanies a series of broadcasts on American public radio which collected many of the surviving audio recordings of ex-slaves which were made in the 1920s and 1930s throughout the United States. Put together by the Smithsonian Institute and supporting the 1998 book of the same name. The audiovisual part of the website is divided into five sections which looks at slavery in general, the work and home life of slaves and the adjustment to freedom and requires Real Audio to work, which can create some problems for Mac users - the site does offer help on how to overcome it however.

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