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- http://www.screenonline.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, History, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Databases, Reviews, Streaming/Download
This growing resource of materials is aimed at media studies students and hails from the British Film Institute. It includes several thousand individual items, including biographies of British film and television personnel, including actors, writers, directors, producers, composers, cinematographers. These can be searched by name or via an alphabetical list. The database incorporates some material from the recently published Encyclopedia of British Film and from the forthcoming Reference Guide to British and Irish Film Directors and evenly covers both television and film. It also includes stills, posters, scripts and other fascinating items. One of its most exciting features is the vast amount of material that can be viewed on the site, much of which comes from the BFI’s National Film and Television Archive. This is only available to schools, colleges, universities and public libraries on their premises and not elsewhere. These include extensive clips from rare and obscure film and television titles as well as entire episodes from such classic TV shows as Fawlty Towers. The streamed material can be viewed with QuickTime, Real and Windows Media Player and cannot be downloaded for copyright reasons.
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- http://www.wochenschau-archiv.de
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Current Affairs, German Studies, History, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The Federal Film Archives, Berlin, are digitising the Deutsche Wocheschau newsreel collection of German newsreels from 1949 and making them freely available over the internet. Over 6,000 stories have been issued so far, for lowband (56K) or broadband (250K) connections, using Windows Media Player.. The latter requires registration. Each clips comes with ‘storyboard’ and background information, and searching is by freetext, or by topic, personality, date or location. There are English language and German language versions of the site, but catalogue descriptions are in German only. The commentaries on the newsreels are, of course, in German.
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- http://www.ina.fr/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Current Affairs, History, Media Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
The French national repository for broadcast archives, INA holds two main bodies of material. Firstly it is the audiovisual archive for French national radio and television stations, dating back to the 1930s (radio) and 1940s (newsreels). INA is also the French legal deposit archive and holds two million hours of broadcasts from nearly 100 television stations and twenty radio stations. In order to fulfil its public access remit INA has made available online over 25,000 hours of rights-cleared content, which can be viewed freely on the website but also bought on a pay-per-download basis. The collections are searchable by Theme, Personality, Programme and Decade. See also the educational website Jalons
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- http://www.thlib.org/
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- Social Sciences
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- Ethnology, History
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Databases
This extremely detailed resource from the University of Virginia provides a very large number of video and audio clips on Tibet and its peoples and culture which require QuickTime to access. They can be searched individually by collection or region or across the entire database. The encoding is decent, but the image size is rather small. The material goes as far back as the 1930s and clips vary in length for a few minutes to close to half an hour. It is possible to search the collection individually and by keyword, although accessing the materials can be a little bit laborious. The site is also available in Tibetan, Nipali, Chinese and Japanese.
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- http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History, Media Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
Video and audio from the huge BBC news archive from 1950 onwards, made available through RealPlayer, with plenty of textual support. The entire database can be searched by month and day and by theme and there is also a section devoted to witness accounts.
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- http://main.wgbh.org/ton/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Ethnology, History, Media Studies, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The WGBH Media Archives and Preservation Center presents bulletins from WGBH’s in-depth nightly news program, The Ten O’Clock News. The material covers the years from 1974 to 1991 and can be searched by keyword, name, location and chronologically and are between 30 and 200 seconds in length and require QuickTime. From a design perspective, the site is not particularly attractive and somewhat spartan, but the materials held are often fascinating, with emphasis on serious political issues such as desegregation in schools, AIDS and affordable housing.
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