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- https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, Web Links
The Harry Ransom Center is a library, archive and museum based at the University of Austin, Texas. Its mission is to advance the study of the arts and humanities by acquiring, preserving, and making accessible original cultural materials. Amongst its holdings are over 36 million literary manuscripts as well as a smaller collection of film and television materials. The centre’s multimedia page features an eclectic selection of videos, including talks by writers, features on aspects of conservation, and films about selected artefacts and objects held in the Center’s archives.
Also available is the Mike Wallace Interview collection. Wallace was an American journalist noted for his direct interviewing style, whose programme ran from 1957 to 1960. He donated the show’s footage, on 16mm kinetoscope, to the Ransom Center in the 1960s. A wide range of notable personalities submitted themselves to Wallace’s probing, hard-hitting approach, including Henry Kissinger, Frank Lloyd Wright, Diana Barrymore, Jean Seberg, Gloria Swanson, Aldous Huxley and Margaret Sanger. The 65 interviews are freely available to view (five are audio only) and come with full transcripts.
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- http://www.pebblemill.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Media Studies, Radio Studies, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings, Video Sources
This excellent resource documents the history of Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham, from the building’s opening in 1971 to its demolition in 2005. The site features video interviews, stills and text about the history of the studios, with contributions from production staff, including directors, editors, producers, writers and camera operators. Amongst those interviewed are David Rudkin, who wrote the acclaimed Play for Today ‘Penda’s Fen’, who talks here about working with director Alan Clarke.
Searchable Transmission lists give a chronology of drama broadcast from BBC Pebble Mill between 1972-200. The listings include drama series Thirty Minute Theatre, Playhouse and Play for Today, listing transmission date, writer, producer and director. A slight caveat for users is that the material is presented in the form of a blog, so that entries are arranged chronologically, which can make searching difficult. The material is, however, broadly arranged in three categories: ‘Building’, ‘Television’ and ‘Radio’. The site was created by Vanessa Jackson, who worked at Pebble Mill from 1987 to 2004. She is currently (2014) Degree Leader in Television at Birmingham City University: the site is part of a research project to document programme making in the regions, and was been funded by Screen West Midlands. For copyright reasons no footage from the original BBC programmes is available on the site.
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- http://soundeffectspodcast.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Media Studies, Music, Radio Studies, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Series of podcasts created by a sound designer and musician who goes by the alias SFX Ninja. Each episode addresses the process involved in the recording of sound and the creation of sound effects, offering advice on, for example, on how to record bird sounds and create chirping sound effects. Other episodes address ‘historical’ sound effects, video games and kitchen noises: others look at the challenges involved in recording bathroom noises and insect sounds. The podcasts also make an effort to contextualise the process, and include information about the history of sound effects and recording technology, as well as addressing the mixture of technological and creative skill needed. The overall tone is chatty and anecdotal but backed up by real expertise. Each podcast includes free sound clips and effects to download.
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- https://www.city.ac.uk/cambridge-spies-the-guy-burgess-files
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- History, Media Studies, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download, Web Links
This fascinating microsite presents the only known audio recording of spy Guy Burgess, which was made by Burgess in 1951, just before he defected to the Soviet Union. In the recording, Burgess recalls his meeting with Winston Churchill in 1938. The tape was recovered from the FBI by two academics at City University: former head of ITN, Professor Stewart Purvis and media historian Jeff Hulbert. The site tells not only the story of how Purvis and Hulbert tracked down the recording but also includes a contextual essay on the significance of the tape, an events timeline, a full transcript of the tape’s contents, an FBI memo by J. Edgar Hoover, a video recording of the moment when Purvis and Hulbert opened the package from the FBI, and a Channel 4 News report by Michael Crick about the story.
The material is all freely available on the site. Researchers wishing to download any of the content are required to fill in a short request form.
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- http://podcastthing.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Art, Business Studies, Current Affairs, Design, Economics, Food, General Science, History, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Social Studies, Technology, Women’s Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
A portal which helps people to ‘find great podcasts’. Curated by Max Temkin and Veronica Corzo-Duchardt, the site presents a selection of mainly American podcasts, arranged under a number of topics, including Tech, Science & Education, Politics & Econ and Storytelling. An Interview page features transcripts of question and answer sessions with podcasters, writers, designers and other culturally-aware, creative people, who talk about their favourite podcasts, and why (and how) they like listening to them. The site works well because its focus is fairly narrow: the emphasis is on curation, and presenting a carefully selected range of interesting podcasts, rather than a comprehensive but overwhelming list of resources.
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- https://tvo.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Education, History, Literature, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Podcasting, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
TV Ontario have made hundreds of programmes and programme clips freely available online as part of an ongoing digitisation programme to celebrate four decades as a producer of educational programmes. Users can explore the website by Programme, Subject or People, or use a keyword search and narrow their search by decade and topic. The content includes interviews with Canadian and American writers, including Ontarian Margaret Atwood, who in this clip from 1976 talks about her life and career as writer of novels and literary criticism.
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- https://www.rte.ie/player/gb/
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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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- Organisations, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
This on-demand video service offers television and radio programmes broadcast by Irish public state broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). Originally only available to Irish viewers, RTÉ player is now streaming its programmes worldwide. As well as current broadcast output, including drama, entertainment, news and sport, the broadcaster has also has a Classics category, featuring selected items from RTÉ's archive dating back to the 1960s. Also of interest to researchers is the RTÉ TV 50 site, which was created to celebrate fifty years of Irish television. Here the viewer can see clips from the earliest days of RTÉ, read a decade by decade history of the broadcaster, and, in the Clip of the Week section, see how RTE reported national events, social trends and cultural highlights over the past five decades, including a look at the impact of emigration from the West of Ireland in the early 1970s, an encounter with the Beatles at Dublin airport, and a feminist protest at the Forty Foot pool, a traditional male-only swimming point at Sandycove, Dublin.
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- https://www.theengineer.co.uk/
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- Science and Technology
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- Engineering, Media Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Blogs, Journals, Streaming/Download, Vacancies/Careers
This website is the online version of the UK’s leading resource for the engineering industry, featuring news, opinion pieces and job vacancies. As well as covering current developments, the site also features a searchable archive of over 30,000 articles, from Jan 2000 to the present.
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- http://www.aca-media.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Journals, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
A monthly podcast with an academic perspective on media, presented by Christine Becker and Michael Kackman. The programme is sponsored by Cinema Journal, the official journal of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and features items on film, television, radio, sound and digital media. The podcast is presented in a magazine format and covers current scholarship, interviews with academics, questions in pedagogy and professional development, events in the media studies world and issues in the media industries.
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- https://sounds.bl.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Art, Current Affairs, Drama, Film Studies, History, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Radio Studies, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
50,000 selected sound recordings from the British Library’s sound archive, covering music, spoken word, wildlife and oral history. There is a vast range of material available here: the Arts, literature and performance page alone contains a wealth of diverse material from a series of talks at the ICA, which comprises over 800 discussions during the period 1982-1993 with contemporary writers, artists and filmmakers, to early spoken word recordings, the African Writers Club Collection and the Theatre Archive Project. Other sections cover Sound Recording History, Jazz and popular music and Accents and Dialects. Much of the material is freely available but some is for the use of Higher and Further Education institutions only.
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