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  1. Reelisor (inactive) Streaming

    Link
    http://www.reelisor.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Film Studies, History
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Information Sources

    Reelisor is an online cooperation platform for the professional European documentary film world. As a network for existing platforms and websites, Reelisor offers guidance and information to encourage training, education and the exchange of knowledge within the international documentary film market and its related fields. It connects documentary film professionals, commissioning editors, festivals, markets and other initiatives active in the industry. Funding is provided by MEDIA, the EU support programme for the European audiovisual industry.

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  2. Entertainment Industry History Project (formerly the BECTU History Project) Streaming

    Link
    https://www.historyproject.org.uk/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Film Studies, History
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Organisations

    Gives details of BECTU’s oral history programme, begun in 1987, which interviews veterans of the film and television industries, with the recordings being available for study by bona fide researchers through the British Film Institute.

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  3. A Vision of Britain Through Time Streaming

    Link
    http://vision.port.ac.uk/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Agriculture, Geography, History, Social Studies
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Information Sources

    The Vision of Britain Through Time website, an initiative of the Great Britain Historical GIS (GBH-GIS) based at the University of Portsmouth. gives e-access to over two centuries’ worth of facts, figures, surveys, maps, election results and travel writing showing how 15,000 UK places have changed. It includes new-to-view historic boundary maps, a land use survey that helped to defeat Hitler, unemployment and wage records, farm surveys from 1866, the biggest e-library of historic British travel writing and the results of every Parliamentary election since 1833.Funded by JISC as part of a programme to offer a wider audience free access to academic research and resources.

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  4. ARROWS Streaming

    Link
    https://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/search.aspx
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Advertising, History, Media Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums

    This subscription service provides access to the content of the History of Advertising Trust. Thousands of television adverts can be searched by title and brand as well as the names of the director, producer, art director and writer.

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  5. British Library Sound Archive Streaming

    Link
    https://www.bl.uk/subjects/sound
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Drama, History, Media Studies, Music, Nature, Radio Studies
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Databases, Web Links

    The catalogue to the British L:ibrary Sound Archive’s collection of over two and a half million recordings stretching back to the late 19th century is now available online. The catalogue entries are precise, but it is not possible (as yet) to listen the recordings themselves. The seven main subject areas covered by the collection are Classical Music, Drama and Literature, International Music, Jazz, Oral History, Popular Music and Wildlife Sound. The site includes practical information on accessing the recordings, details of BLSA publications, and a valuable page of external links. In May 2009, a Curator for Radio was appointed and since then a new set of web pages relating to radio have been produced.

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  6. Educational and Television Films (ETV) (inactive) Streaming

    Link
    http://www.etvltd.demon.co.uk
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Film Studies, History, Music, Politics and Government, Russian Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Footage Sources

    ETV is a specialised film archive holding footage of the twentieth century. The archive specialises in left wing footage from around the world, with a particular emphasis on material from Russia and the Soviet Union. There is no searchable database, only sections from ETV subject catalogues, which do at least point out the range and strengths of the collection. This site is no longer active, but it can be traced by entering the address in the Wayback Machine. The ETV collection is now held by the National Film and Television Archive.

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  7. Researcher’s Guide Online to Screen Heritage (RGO) Streaming

    Link
    http://bufvc.ac.uk/archives/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Advertising, Biology, Botany, Dance, Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Nature, Radio Studies, Sports Science
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Databases, Footage Sources, Information Sources, Web Links

    The RGO is a database of over 650 film, television, radio and related documentation collections and artefacts in the United Kingdom and Ireland, designed for use by researchers. These physical artefacts combine to represent all the key practices within screen history including the magic lantern, film, television and the digital present. They include magic lanterns and slides, optical toys, film production equipment, television and video equipment, cinema equipment and fittings, artwork for animation, sets and costumes, sound technology, toys and games and documentation such as photographs, scripts, sheet music and personal papers. The database covers national and regional archives as well stockshot libraries and collections held by local authorities, museums, institutions of further and higher education, industrial companies and private individuals.
    Each record has live e-mail and weblinks, and the data is regularly updated by the BUFVC’s Information Service.

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  8. National Anthropological Archives (NAA) Streaming

    Link
    http://anthropology.si.edu/naa/home/naahome.html
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    Ethnology, History
    Medium
    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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  9. Video History Project Streaming

    Link
    http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/history/index.html
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    American Studies, Art, History, Media Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Information Sources

    The Video History Project aims to identify, locate, and make accessible media history resources, for example tapes, writings, interviews, biographies and ephemera etc, to increase public awareness of the media. It documents video art and community television as it evolved in rural and urban New York State, and across the US.

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  10. Art Historians’ Guide to the Movies (inactive) Streaming

    Link
    http://personal1.stthomas.edu/cdeliason/ahgttm.htm
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Architecture, Art, Film Studies, History
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Information Sources

    An idiosyncractic record of appearances and references to works of art and architecture in the movies, intended as a resource for teachers of art history planning to use film clips in their presentations. Divided into Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Nineteenth Century, Modernism, Contemporary, Modern Architecture, Non-Western and Other, with links to the filmographic data supplied by the Internet Movie Database.
    This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 04/01/2006. This does not include access to the moving images.

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