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- https://www.deadmedia.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
- Subject
- Computing, Film Studies, General Science, Media Studies, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources
The Dead Media Project is a database of reports compiled by members of the Project’s mailing list, who contribute information on means of communication that are now obsolete. It is a characteristic of the Project that among the various comments that each posting generates there is often someone who can report that a supposed Dead Medium is still in use somewhere. Nevertheless, the site mostly records the dead and the fantastical: the phenakistoscope, the teleharmonium, Piesse’s Smell Organ, Loutherbourg’s Eidophusikon, Hummel’s Telediagraph, runic tally sticks, Scopitone, pigeon post, pneumatic mail, the whistling networks of the Canary Islands, and numerous moving image and sound devices that are no more. The Dead Media Project has itself been dead since July 2008, but it is worth looking at the pages via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to retrieve the information held at that date.
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- http://epguides.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- American Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, TV/Radio listings
A fully searchable site with lists of episode titles, cast lists and original air dates for many different American television shows, plus a selection of British series (e.g. ‘Only Fools and Horses’, ‘The Professionals’, ‘The South Bank Show’). Some of the records have episode synopses, there is variable production information, and links to the Internet Movie Database.
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- http://films.nfb.ca/capturing-reality/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases
This highly detailed and impressively well-designed website from the National Film Board of Canada brings together interviews with dozens of filmmakers to discuss the art of the documentary, including such major figures as Nick Broomfield, Malcolm Clarke, Werner Herzog and Kim Longinotto. It can be searched by personality or by subject category (such as editing, sound, genre etc). A model of its kind.
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- http://www.hatads.org.uk/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Advertising, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Databases
The History of Advertising Trust exists to encourage and subsidise the study of advertising and related subjects in the UK. Its archive holds collections of advertising, marketing/retail, media and public relations material from 1800 to the present day. The archive collection includes moving image materials, details of some of which can be traced through the Archive’s partial catalogue through the University of East Anglia. Content can also be accessed via the ARROWS subscription service.
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- https://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/search.aspx
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- 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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- http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Funding, Organisations, Vacancies/Careers
The UK Film Council is the strategic agency for developing the film industry in the UK. The site includes news of Film Council activities, documents (including Film in England’ and Towards a Sustainable UK Film Industry), information on funding resources for filmmakers in the UK, including the Low Budget Funding Guide, and weekly box office figures. In July 2010 it was announced that the government is to abolish the Film Council and make the British Film Institute the distributor of lottery funding for film production in the UK, while inward investment work will transfer to Film London.
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- http://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Databases
Based at the University of Exeter, the Bill Doulas Cinema Museum contains both a public museum and an academic research centre, housing one of Britain’s largest public collections of books, prints, artefacts and ephemera relating to the history and prehistory of cinema. The site includes a ‘tour’ of the collection, text and images from past exhibitions, and basic web links. The archives can be browsed by clicking on the links in this list.
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- 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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- https://www.meccsa.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Education, Media Studies, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Discussion Lists, Organisations
The MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education, including film and TV studies, media production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The Radio Studies Network brings together researchers in radio, podcasting, sound art and audio platforms from the UK and beyond. It encourages interested colleagues to join the discussion via their Facebook and Twitter sites.
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- http://cinovid.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases
Originally known as Ovid, this is a basic-looking but effective database of experimental film and video art which gives general filmographic information on titles and individuals as well as distributor details where available . It can be searched by keywords as well as by year, title, country and individual. Based in Saxony-Anhalt, the synopses are both in English and French.
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