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Sadly partially inactive since March 2001, the motto of this site was "We scour the net so you don’t have to!" and it frequently lived up to its boast. it includes recent news items, links to animation companies, a ‘Pick-of-the-Week’ section as well as featured animations. The main sections of the Animation World Network (q.v. separate entry) remain valuable and up-to-date however. This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 16/03/2016. This does not include access to the moving images.
Originally part of the BBC’s Cult TV pages, which are still available but no longer being updated, this site includes streamed clips from the adventures of all the doctors as well as a number of interviews. In addition it has details of all the ancillary Doctor Who products, an episode guide, recently discovered footage from a lost episode and message boards for fans. It also includes exclusive webcasts of new animated adventures (which require Flash), including Scream of the Shalka, starring Richard E. Grant as the Doctor and a belated new production of Douglas Adams’ Shada with Paul McGann in the role.
This site celebrates the life and work of British film director and editor, David Lean. Most of the materials are taken from the British Film Institute’s Special Collections and include jpegs of press books, stills, reviews, scripts, designs and correspondence. All his films as director as well as many on which he served as editor are analysed and many extracts from the films themselves can can be viewed either with RealPlayer or Windows MediaPlayer. Please note that this resource is currently as an old site. David Lean’s films can be watched via the BFIplayer, with a subscription.
Previously a subscription service known as Tookeys Film Guide, this is now advert-supported and therefore much more accessible. It remains a fairly large and certainly up-to-date database, detailing the often eccentric opinions of film critic Christopher Tookey which can be searched by title, personality, year, keyword and genre. It also provides a very useful sampling of opinions by other critics as well as a rather dubious rating system. Now includes some of Tookey’s BBC Radio broadcasts.
LUX focuses on visual arts-based moving image work, a definition which includes experimental film, video art, installation art, performance art, personal documentary, essay films and animation. The organisation’s main activities are distribution, exhibition, publishing, commissioning, research, and professional development support, and the newly designed website neatly reflects all these activities. Of particular note is the easily searchable collection of 4500 films and videos by approximately 1500 artists, which evolved from the holdings of the now-defunct London Filmmakers Co-operative, London Video Arts and The Lux Centre. These works are available for hire or sale (via the online shop), some may be viewed online in their entirety (Video section) and some are included in online themed exhibitions (listed in the ‘What’s On’ section which also includes detailed information on LUX projects and events, and a calendar listing of upcoming events across London involving artists’ moving image). The site also features a blog and downloadable podcasts and vodcasts of interviews with artists, documentation of LUX events and specially commissioned content.
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