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- http://www.boxofficeprophets.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
Unlike other places where you can get information on US box office statistics, such as Box Office Mojo, the emphasis here is largely on film-related articles and reviews (films, TV programmes and DVD releases) and although the US bias is very marked, there is a pleasing number of items related to foreign and non-English language films.
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- http://www.cinemanow.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Backed by the likes of Microsoft and Blockbuster, this US site is one of many that offer full-length feature films that can be downloaded for a fee. The connection must be 56k or higher and the movies are viewed using Media Player. The actual selection (said to number over 1,000) is limited in the main to B movies (or worse), but a number of films are offered for free. The titles are divided by genre (Action, Comedy, Documentary, Foreign, Horror etc) and all the free items are clearly marked.
This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 12/04/2017. This does not include access to the moving images.
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- http://www.tvland.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
Homepage for a nostalgia channel in the United States which repeats old television programmes such as I Love Lucy, The Rockford Files, Batman, Gunsmoke, The Brady Bunch, Charlie’s Angels and many more. The site is rather noisy and littered with pop up windows which are something of an unwelcome distraction. None the less, it includes a wealth of material devoted to these programmes, including episode guides, short essays, stills, memorabilia, as well as the original theme tunes (which can be heard using either Real, QuickTime or Windows Media Player). There are also a number of new interviews with many of the actors from these shows that can be viewed using QuickTime.
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- http://www.bfi.org.uk
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Databases, Distributors, Information Sources, Organisations, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download, Vacancies/Careers, Video Sources, Web Links
The British Film Institute is the UK’s national information and resource centre for the moving image. Its activities cover the BFI National Library, the BFI National Archive, the National Film Theatre, education and publication. The site includes access to its huge database of film and television information, and an online catalogue for the BFI National Library of over 42,000 books on film and television. Also information on screenings at the National Film Theatre, educational resources, film and media industries information. The site is making available an increasing amount of online video content, including special projects such as the Mitchell and Kenyon collection of early actualities, but much video content is being made available through Screenonline .
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- http://www.moviesounds.co.uk
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
A collection of short sound files from over ninety films (mostly contemporary), with links to video availability through Amazon and Blackstar. The site emphasises that all the sounds ‘retain their original copyright as owned by their respective movie production companies’ and are ‘for education, research, criticism or for review for movie purchase’.
This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 26/02/2005. This does not include access to the moving images.
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- http://www.film4.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Information Sources, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
This site lists films shown on Film4 in the previous and forthcoming week. It also gives information on Film4 productions and streams a number of trailers, clips and interviews with directors. The Film4 On Demand section of the site provides a film rental service for online and offline viewing.
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- https://archive.org/details/movies
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Film Studies, Politics and Government, Social Welfare
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
Part of the Internet Archive which also covers archived web pages (The Wayback Machine), audio and software, the Internet Moving Images Archive contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these streamed videos are available for free download. At the heart of the collection are the Prelinger Archives of documentary films illustrating everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in North America in the 20th century. In this collection alone there are around 2000 films.
Other sub-collections include Iraq War, Classic Feature Films, Computer Chronicles, Net Cafe, Democracy Now!, Cinemocracy, Election 2004, Youth Media, SISGRAPH, Open Mind, Shaping San Francisco, Brick Fillms, Video Games, Film Chest Vintage Cartoons, Mosaic Middle East News, AV Geeks, SabuCat Movie Trailers, Universal Newsreels, Media Burn, BBS Documentaries, German Cinema, Globians Film Festival, Deep Dish TV, UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos, Coffee House TV, Fadiman Social Documentaries, Sports Videos, Kino French Fillms, Drive-in Movie Ads, and Alternate Focus. The archive’s collection of audio recordings ranges from alternative news programming to Grateful Dead concerts, book and poetry readings, and original music contributed by users.
The individual audio sub-collections are: Live Music Archive, Grateful Dead, Netlabels, Open Source Audio, Presidential Recordings, Democracy Now, 78 RPMs, Tse Chen Ling Buddhist Lectures, Childhood Matters, GenderTalk, Conference Proceedings, Other Minds Archive, Berkeley Groks Science Radio, Rustbelt Radio, LibriVox, Open Democracy, Old Time Radio, Mother Jones Radio, Talking Matters, Free Speech Radio News, KXJZ’s Insight, and Naropa.In addition, the Educational Resources section of the archive has recordings from ArsDigita University, MIT OpenCourseWare, MRSI Math Lectures, Monterey Institute for Technology & Education AP Courses, and Naropa poetics Audio Archives. Streaming uses Real and MPEG formats and downloads are available in a choice of MPEG 1-4 The Archive is a major contributor to the Open Video Project.
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- Link
- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, History
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Organisations, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The National Archives, which covers England, Wales and the United Kingdom, was formed in April 2003 by bringing together the Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission. It is an underused resource for the study of film. Its online catalogue, National Archives Catalogue (formerly PROCAT), gives the researcher access to 9.5 million records, which include company papers, Foreign Office documents, copyright records, Ministry of Information wartime documents and other classes which relate to film production. The documents themselves are not accessible, but registered users can order documents to view at Kew online. The site also has a section giving information on Public Information Films from 1945-2006 which are streamed using Quicktime or Windows Media Player. 5 short public information films from the Charley Says series are available for download as podcasts, as are two audio lectures - one on the British soldier in India 1750-1914 and another on inventors and inventions in the industrial revolution.
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- http://www.gresham.ac.uk
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Business Studies, Economics, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, General Science, History, Information Studies, Law, Literature, Mathematics, Media Studies, Medicine, Music, Photography, Politics and Government, Psychiatry, Psychology, Religious Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Gresham College, named after Sir Thomas Gresham, has been giving free lectures for some 400 years. Over 2,000 audio and/or video lectures given since 2001 are available on the site for free, on-demand streaming or download approximately two weeks after they have been given. The main subject areas are Art & Literature, Medical Science, Business, History, Law, Mathematics, Music, Politics, Religion, Science, and Unusual, which includes Media, Education, Climate Change and others. Results can also be filtered by subcategories. For example, there is a section on Film under the Arts & Literature category, and a section on Film Music under the Music category. The lectures last, on average, between 25 minutes and a little under an hour. They all have a good number of chapters and a fair amount of information is given on the site as well as transcripts and links to related materials.
The content can also be browsed via the tab Watch which contains four groupings: All Past Lectures, Series, Shorts and Short Series.
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- http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/about.html
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Festivals, Streaming/Download
The D.FILM Digital Film Festival, an online showcase of films made digitally, has now been turned into Dvolver. The goal of the festival was both to entertain, by showing audiences the very best work done by today’s new breed of digital filmmakers, and to inspire, by actively teaching them how they can do it themselves. The festival is no longer running and the new company is now involved in developing creativity widgets for online communication.
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