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- Link
- http://www.aparchive.com/partner/British%20Movietone
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Current Affairs, Film Studies, History, Politics and Government
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Footage Sources, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
British cinema newsreel library covering British Movietone News in its entirety from 1929-1979. Online database is fully searchable (the database also includes the TV-AM library) with detailed shotlists available. All its issues can now be viewed online via QuickTime and requires registration, which is free.
In 2015 the entire archive was published on a Movietone YouTube channel by AP Archive making thousands of news stories freely available to browse, share and embed. Note: Much of the metadata has been stripped out (for example release date and issue number) making a search for a specific event more difficult.
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Moving image
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- Link
- https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Current Affairs, Geography, History, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Footage Sources, Streaming/Download
The web pages of the European Commission’s Audio Visual Services include downloadable video, photo and sound coverage of EU-related news materials going back to the 1940s.
Other Online Moving image 
Audio
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- Link
- https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/exhibitions/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
The various ‘exhibitions’ here explore original sources (mostly from the PRO) for learning about different aspects of history. These include some use of moving image and sound evidence (using QuickTime or Windows Media Player), for example in the exhibition ‘Trafalgar to Korea’, exploring five British battles, which feature film clips from D-Day from the Imperial War Museum. The section "1901: Living at the Time of the Censs’ includes film clips from the 1901 period taken from the BFI National Archive, including titles from its Mitchell and Kenyon collection.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- http://www.folkstreams.net/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Devoted to streaming documentaries about American folk culture. It currently holds over 40 films, mostly between 20 and 60 minutes long which can be viewed vias QuickTime or Real.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- https://www.bbfc.co.uk/education-resources/student-guide
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, History, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Podcasting
Designed with both students and teachers in mind, SBBFC offers inside information on film classification in the UK. The site includes audio and video podcasts on topics including BBFC classification of South Asian films and video games, the Board’s review of its classification guidelines, and a video from American Humane on monitoring conditions for animals appearing in Hollywood productions. There are also timelines on legislation and the major turning points in the history of film classification and censorship relating to sex, drugs, violence, sexual violence; case studies written by BBFC staff giving detailed information about how and why works were passed, cut or banned, reported in the papers, complained about or praised; the Resources section has a wealth of information to help with researching and writing about the history of film, video and games classification in the UK.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- http://www.intute.ac.uk/medhist/
- Category
- Science and Technology
- Subject
- History, Medicine
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources
Developed by the Wellcome Trust and now part of Intute, MedHist is a gateway to Internet resources on "the history of medicine and allied sciences, covering all aspects of the history of health and development of medical knowledge". It is possible to search by historical period as well as by categories such as Diseases, Education & research, People, Medical speciality & technique and Locality. In addition there are dozens of narrower categories all of which are plainly but very easy to use and simply presented to try and stop the user becoming overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of information available. NB No new resources have been added to MedHist since February 2010. Existing resources were checked and broken links fixed until July 2011, but this has now ceased, so the resource will become increasingly less useful and reliable.
This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 27/10/2012. This does not include access to the moving images.
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Record only
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- Link
- http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- American Studies, History
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Streaming/Download
This gateway from the American Rhetoric site links to a plethora of websites that provide either text or audio files of famous speeches, with a predominantly American bias. The individual items are listed alphabetically, although it is unfortunate that individuals are listed by their first name (i.e. Winston Churchill is under W). Some of the highlights include Charlton Heston on gun control, Jeff Daniels reading Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor speech and William Faulkner accepting the Nobel Prize.
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- Link
- https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/
- Category
- Social Sciences
- Subject
- Geography, History, Social Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
Alaska’s Digital Archives presents a wealth of historical photographs, albums, oral histories, moving images, maps, documents, physical objects, and other materials from libraries, museums and archives throughout the state.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- http://www.gaumontpathearchives.com/index.php?langue=EN
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- French Studies, History, Politics and Government
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Footage Sources, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
The combined archives of the Gaumont, Éclair and French Pathé news archives, with news material going back to 1896. There are a substantial number of streamed video copies of the Gaumont newsreels, making this site one of the leading sources of online historical news footage in the world. The videos use RealPlayer, for connections from 56K to T1, and the quality of the encodings is very high. The catalogue is available in French and English, the latter appearing to have been produced using a translation programme, which has produced some quaint results.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/network/
- Category
- Social Sciences
- Subject
- Ethnology, History, Social Welfare
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Inspired by the Mass-Observation movement of the 1930s onwards, the BBC Video Nation site has grown out of its Video Diaries programmes of the 1990s, where people were given Hi-8 video cameras and invited to record their lives of a year. Video Nation Online was launched in 2001 with 250 of the original shorts. The site has expanded to some 750 films, with strong English regional coverage. The films are classified by theme, special features, localities and contributor. The films are available in both narrowband (56k|ISDN) and broadband (256k+) formats.
Other Online Moving image
Learning on Screen