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- http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacifica.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History, Politics and Government, Radio Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Databases, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
The Social Activism Sound Recording Project is a cooperative endeavour developed by radio station KPFA-FM (Berkeley, California), the Pacifica Radio Archives, and the UC Berkeley Library. The goal of the project is to make accessible via the web a unique library of recordings of significant people and events that shaped the politics and culture of the 1960s. The project covers the Free Speech Movement, the Black Panther Party, and Other Activists and Events. The site gives contents details for the recordings held and includes a selection of audio and video clips (using Real). Part of the Media Resources Center at Berkeley.
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- http://www.victorian-cinema.net/index.htm
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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, Technology
This site is an updated web version of the 1996 book of the same name edited by Stephen Herbert and Luke McKernan. It provides a wealth of material on the origins and the very first days of cinema. The main bulk of the text can be accessed through the literally hundreds of biographical essays, written by such renowned authorities as David Robinson, John Barnes and the late Denis Gifford. Apart from its meticulous cross-referencing, the site also offers a large number of fascinating stills and illustrations as well as breakdowns by personality, country and specific machines. The resources page is also very useful and is divided into nine categories: Chronology, Websites, Books, Journals, Videos, Organizations, Archives, Texts and News & Events. There is also a fine bibliography. Highly recommended.
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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
- Type of resource
- 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.
Other Online Moving image
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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
- Type of resource
- 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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Audio
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- Link
- http://www.bbcactivevideoforlearning.com/1/Home.aspx
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Business Studies, Classics, Drama, Engineering, Environmental Studies, History, Nature, Technology
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Video Sources
Formerly the BBC’s Videos for Learning and Teaching and more recently known as BBC Active, this is an important catalogue for the wide-ranging video tapes of previously transmitted programmes offered by the Corporation to educational institutions. Sadly, as part of its rebranding, the prices have increased up by up to a factor of five (the average cost per title is now £125). The material however remains irreplaceable. It includes such classic documentaries as Life on Earth, The Ascent of Man and items from the Horizon series as well as the perennial BBC Shakespeare titles. These can be by title or contributor, as well as by series and by the following subject categories: Anthropology, the Arts, Business, Drama, Education, Engineering, Environment, Literature, Health & Medicine, History, Natural World, Science & Technology and Social Issues. These titles can also be licensed separately for online learning, festival screenings and exhibitions. Please note that only a small part of the holdings are listed online and it is a good idea to request titles directly.
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- https://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, History, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Footage Sources
The BFI National Archive is the national collection of film and television, comprising some 600,000 titles. It aims to collect, preserve, restore and then share the UK’s moving image heritage. The site includes information on preservation, catalogues, research access, footage sales and special projects. The catalogues include such subjects as the Boer War, British Silent Comedy Films, DVD Hire, Ethnic Notions, Spanish Civil War, and Disability and the Moving Image. It also includes the BFI collection of stills, posters and designs. The Archive’s film and television holdings are included in the BFI’s Film and TV Database. A member of the Film Archives UK body (formerly Film Archives Forum).
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- http://www.uh.edu/admin/engines/engines.htm
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- History, Radio Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Streaming/Download
The Engines of Our Ingenuity is an American radio programme telling the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. The programme web site houses the transcripts for every episode heard since the show’s inception in 1988. Streaming audio is available on each of the posted episodes (using Real). The wide range of subjects over nearly 2,000 episodes include Leon Theremin, the number zero, windmills, the camera obscura, mind reading, mousetraps and paperclips, the Lunar Society, and Food in Early Texas.
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- http://www.earlytelevision.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Web Links
The Early Television Museum is based in Hilliard, Ohio. Its plain but clearly organised website includes information on mechanical and early electronic television systems, early colour, and the way that television developed post-war in America, Britain and Europe. There is a general history television, numerous photographs of television equipment from the mseum, biographical details of invetors such as Philo Farnsworth, John Logie Baird and Vladimir Zworykin, links, and articles from prewar magazines.
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- http://www.swfta.org.uk
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- History, Media Studies, Social Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Databases, Footage Sources
The South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA) is the regional film archive for the South West of England. Established in 1993, it is one of the largest regional film archives in the UK and holds the Westward Television and TSW (Television South West) independent television collections as well as a significant number of donated film collections, both amateur and professional. The Archive is able to sell copies of some of its holdings on DVD. The SWFTA is a member of Film Archives UK.
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