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- http://www.historyinfilm.com/index.htm
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Databases
History is for the most part interpreted as conflict here and features information on films depicting the Vietnam War (Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill), the second World War (The Great Escape, Saving Private Ryan, Patton, Bridge on the River Kwai), The American Civil War (Gone With The Wind, Gettysburg) as well as coverage of films and tv dramas set in Ancient Rome (I, Claudius, Cleopatra, Spartacus). It provides plot and episode summaries and compares the dramas against historical records with useful timelines and other materials.
This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 29/09/2011. This does not include access to the moving images.
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- https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History, Media Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources
Previously known as the Learning Curve, this is a free online teaching and learning resource, following the History National Curriculum from Key Stages 2 to 5. It includes documents, photos and film clips. These can be searched under a variety of headings, such as The Cold War, Early 20th Century Kent, Home Front 1939-1945 and others. These can be viewed either in Windows Media Player or QuickTime or both. The moving image holdings, which are made up predominantly of news items, are not insubstantial and can be searched by keywords using simple Boolean search terms. The encoding is usually of acceptable standard, although some material is poor with little or no contextual information to support it, although in some cases they have built in to pre-prepared lesson plans for teachers.
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- http://www.buddhanet.net/
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- Social Sciences
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- Architecture, History, Religious Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Information Sources
Website dedicated to the story and practice of the Buddhist religion. It includes dozens of audio files relating to religious teachings and will require either Real Audio or QuickTime to play. There is also a multimedia section devoted to the history of the movement which requires Flash Player version 6 to access.
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- http://sfi.usc.edu/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Organisations, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
Between 1994 and 1999, the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation—now the USC Shoah Foundation Institute—interviewed nearly 52,000 survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. The Institute interviewed Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah’s Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) survivors, survivors of Eugenics policies, and war crimes trials participants. Members of the public can use the online Testimony Catalogue to view biographical information for all interviewees in the archive. This provides data only, with no video. Institutions can apply for access to the entire Visual History Archive or to acquire testimony copies.
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- https://www.webofstories.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
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- Biology, Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Physics
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
Previously known as People’s Archive is a service "dedicated to collecting for posterity the stories of the great thinkers and creators of our time". Currently it features detailed interviews with biologists, filmmakers, physicists, mathematicians and craftsmen from various fields. Oddly all the interview subjects were initially male currently, but presumably this was coincidental and is slowly being addressed - currently there are interviews with Diana Athill, Dorothy Hodgkin, Paula Rego, Denise Scott Brown and Gitta Sereny. The archive currently contains over 200 items totaling over 100 hours. The clips have been very well encoded. A well organised resource which is very effectively segmented, it offers good transcriptions of all interviews and provides valuable oral histories. Subdivided into Remarkable People and Great Lives, with the latter organised into Arts, Politics and Science.
Other Online Moving image
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- https://www.cbc.ca/archives/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, French Studies, History, Media Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Courses, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, and its site showcases radio and TV clips from its long history. The clips are organised both thematically and by decade and require Windows MediaPlayer. One can also take a virtual tour of the archive, which also contains much ancillary material which serves to put the large amount of data in context. Highlights include footage of De Gaulle’s inflammatory ‘Vive le Québec libre!' speech, Expo 67, coverage of the 1952 Coronation and this interview with Neil Young from 1969 in which he discusses his reasons for leaving the Buffalo Springfield.
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- http://www.centuryinshoes.com
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Design, History
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
A multimedia cultural history of the shoe in the twentieth century, wittily and stylishly designed. The site divides the subject into decades, with the shoes of each decades viewable as rotating QuickTime videos, and short film clips being available to illustrated each decade, as well as more conventional text. The Flash introduction itself, illustrating a hundred years in shoes and sounds, is a tour de force in itself.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- http://www.hss.energy.gov/HealthSafety/ohre/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- American Studies, General Science, History, Physics
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
The Office of Human Radiation Experiments leads the USA Department of Energy’s efforts to tell the agency’s Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects. Historic documents are being made available over the Internet, and these include audio and video recordings. The films, from the National Archives, include The Atom and You, Paramount News, 25 March 1953; Iodine - 131 (1958) that shows three actual case studies on patients treated at Argonne National Laboratory in 1949; and Atom in the Hospital (1961), showing UCLA research and findings of the effects of radiation on the human body. The films require Real, available for 28.8K, 56K or T1 connections.
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- http://www.spielbergfilmarchive.org.il
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Ethnology, Film Studies, History
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The Steven Spielberg Film Archive at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem holds the world’s largest collection of Jewish documentary film footage. Its ‘Virtual Cinema’ is now streaming over 100 titles from the collection (using Windows Media Player), divided into Jewish Communities, Holocaust, Pre-State, State of Israel and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The ‘cinema’ presentation of the films is particularly attractive. Information on the individual titles is scanty, but the Archive’s catalogue is available elsewhere on the site.
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- http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History, Literature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Databases
This multimedia site is devoted to the works of the poet Wilfred Owen and required Real, Windows Media Player and QuickTime to access some of the content. Although the front page of the site is cluttered and unclear and can be quite discouraging to the casual user and can be rather off-putting, in general WOMDA does in fact contain a wealth of material which can be accessed through the browse page. This includes digital copies of practically all of Owen’s original manuscripts, many of his letters, audio interviews with war veterans, as well as a large number of video clips taken from the Imperial War Museum’s holdings as well as material made more recently, all of which also relates to the First World war in general.
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