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- https://www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Economics, History, Law, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Selected public lectures, seminars, workshops and conferences hosted by the School and its institutes are recorded and can be viewed and downloaded from the web pages, iTunes and YouTube. The videos and podcasts are arranged in broad categories: Culture, Language and Literature; Digital; Economics; History; Law; Music; Philosophy; Politics, Development and Human Rights; Research Training; Sociology and Anthropology. Within the broad categories the titles are listed chronologically; going into individual entries gives a full summary of content.
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- https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/cpa
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- Social Sciences
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- History, Politics and Government
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Organisations
The Conservative Party Archive, held at the Bodlean Libraries, University of Oxford, holds a small but growing audiovisual collection, in a variety of formats ranging from gramophone recordings of Stanley Baldwin’s speech at an election rally in 1928 to WebCameron footage on Mini-DV tapes following David Cameron’s progress during the 2010 General Election campaign. The majority of the collection consists of recordings of annual Conservative Party conferences and party political broadcasts. A more complete collection of both of these can be found at the BFI National Archive, which also holds copies of early films produced by the Conservative & Unionist Films Association from the 1930s-1940s. The Archive holds a large quantity of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, records and speech transcripts.
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- http://tvhistory.tv/index.html
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- American Studies, History, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Technology
A website that provides a chronological flow of events that lead to the development of television. It is focused on hardware, not television programmes, or programming, or how television influences lives. There is some programme information on the site relating to the ‘first’ shows, and how they were discussed in TV Guide. The majority of information on the site relates to American television. The Collections pages list individuals and organisations from around the world with their own websites and collections; a warning that several links are broken.
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- https://documentary.net/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Art, Economics, Education, General Science, History, Media Studies, Music, Nature, Politics and Government, Sports Science, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Discussion Lists, Streaming/Download
A site offering free streamed documentaries; new titles are added daily. Films can be selected by broad categories (e.g. Economy, Media, Nature), by country of production and by duration - short (up to 10 mins), mid (11-30 mins) and long (30 mins or over). Filmmakers are invited to send the site their films for potential distribution. An online magazine/gives industry news, new gadgets, reviews, and notice of forthcoming films. Free tutorials and guides on documentary filmmaking are available from the site.
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- http://www.sellingdemocracy.org/
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- Social Sciences
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- Film Studies, History
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Web Links
This resource was developed to accompany a touring programme of a selection of films produced to promote the Marshall Plan. The site, which does not feature any online footage from the films themselves, contains essays, notes and other information about the 280 films which were produced by the Marshall Plan’s Motion Picture Section throughout Europe from 1948-1953. Written by film historian Sandra Schulberg, the site features essays about the plan itself, challenges faced by the filmmakers, the production and distribution process and censorship, as well as notes on the films which were toured and a selection of posters. There is also a bibliography and links to a full filmography, film archives.
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- https://www.aamarchives.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- History, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Video Sources
This site tells the story of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and its campaigns to support the people of South Africa in their fight against apartheid. The AAM also conducted similar campaigns for Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Angola, and against South Africa’s attacks on its neighbours. The website features a plethorra of digitised resources including audio interviews with people who were involved in the movement, and videos of interviews, promotional films and footage of events, rallies and festivals. There are many other digitised resources, including leaflets, posters, conference programmes, badges, annual reports, postcards etc. All the resources are accompanied by a description, with rights information and other metadata where available, as well as textual information covering the history of the movement and its campaigns.
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- http://afilmarchive.net/about
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Film Studies, History, Languages, Russian Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Footage Sources, Streaming/Download
In 2009 over 850 cans of film were rescued from a discard pile at a defunct Russian Cultural Centre in Amman, Jordan. Eventually they came to the attention of Matthew Epler, an American who was then teaching in Jordan. This website was created by Epler with the aim of use crowdsourcing to identify and translate the labels on the cans, with a view to eventually digitising the films and creating an online resource for scholars and researchers, as well as recovering the history of what appears to be a culturally significant find.
Epler and his colleagues photographed the label on each can and created an online database of images, with fields for researchers to comment. So far, with the assistance of interested researchers, nearly 600 labels have been translated. The material spans five decades from the 1930s to the 1980s and most of it comes from SovExportFilm, a Soviet film agency. A number of clips have been digitised and can be viewed here. Among the films identified so far are a documentary confirmed to be part of the PLO Film Archive, lost since 1985; footage of King Hussein in 1968 addressing the United Nations in the aftermath of the Six Day War and documentary footage of Jerusalem in 1968 and its aftermath.
The site is currently (Nov. 2014) inactive but some of the footage can still be viewed on the Moving Image Archive News site.
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- https://postalmuseum.org
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Art, Design, History, Politics and Government
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting
The British Postal Museum and Archive has a series of podcasts on aspects of the British postal service. Some focus on philately and design, looking at how the work of artists such as Eric Ravilious and Barnett Freedman has shaped public perception of the Post Office. Other podcasts consider social and political aspects of the Post Office’s history. In one example Tony Benn speaks about how he created the National Girobank during his time as Postmaster General. In another Dr Katherine Rake speaks about an incident in 1909 when two suffragettes posted themselves to 10 Downing Street, in an attempt to deliver a message personally to Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.
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- http://www.filmstory.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, History
- Type of resource
- Lists
This website invites the user to explore the relationship between history and film and consists of a directory of films - divided into the categories ‘Feature Film", "Documentary" and "Mini Series" - which can be explored via a search according to era, region and subject. Each film entry has a summary, basic credits and is tagged with a number of themes, which can be clicked through to show other films in the same category. The site’s home page is a map of the world which reveals how many films are available region by region.
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- http://www.leftfieldcinema.com/about-us/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, History
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Discussion Lists
Left Field Cinema is curated by Mike Dawson. The website hosts reviews, articles, podcasts and a forum for examining mainstream cinema from alternative perspectives, and unearthing more obscure films from world cinema and the independent scene. Left Field Cinema is not film criticism, it’s film recommendation and analysis. Contributions are all grouped under themes such as Misunderstood Modern Cinema, Comparative Examination, Documentary Milestone, or Asian Avant-garde.
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