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- http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/bbcmotiongallery#
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Biology, Ethnology, Geography, Media Studies, Nature
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- Film/Video
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- Footage Sources, Streaming/Download
Part of the BBC’s commercial arm, the BBC Motion Gallery includes footage from its archives as well as those of CBS in the United States and is primarily a footage resource for companies in the commercial sector. However, the site also features hundreds of streamed samples of its wares (some lasting only a few seconds), which can be searched by subject and viewed freely via Windows Media Player. The items are adequately encoded and categories include Animals, Business, Places, Nature, News & Events, Science & Technology, Travel, Sport and others. In addition to which there are a huge number of keywords (although there is no actual list to access), as well as pre-organised ‘Concepts’ such as Flirting, Danger, Action and so on which are listed alphabetically. The advanced search makes use of disguised Boolean Search operators but also allows for searches to be limited to format, colour and aspect ratio. It effectively operates as an index to the whole BBC archive. Registration is required but is free and all clips feature BBC digital onscreen graphics as watermarks. In Nov 2007 a new online service was launched in partnership with JISC, to give UK FE and HE institutions access to a selection of footage for use in an educational setting via a password-protected site http://www.jiscmotiongallery.com. At the end of 2009 the Motion Gallery launched the World in Motion channel on Youtube to show high definition clips of programmes such as NOTES ON A CITY.
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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
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- 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.
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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
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- 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://webguide.awn.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Art, Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Databases, Streaming/Download
Sadly partially inactive since March 2001, the motto of this site was "We scour the net so you don’t have to!" and it frequently lived up to its boast. it includes recent news items, links to animation companies, a ‘Pick-of-the-Week’ section as well as featured animations. The main sections of the Animation World Network (q.v. separate entry) remain valuable and up-to-date however.
This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 16/03/2016. This does not include access to the moving images.
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- http://www.tv.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Databases, TV/Radio listings
The parent site of epguides provides vast amounts of information relating to episodes of British and American television programmes, both fiction and non fiction. There are some very large gaps in many of the non-American entries especially and it is not always completely accurate either - it is nonetheless an invaluable resource, giving cast, crew, plot and transmission details for thousands of television programmes. It now includes useful 7-day listings facility for most TV channels in its local UK version. Previously known as TV Tome.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t14n
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Current Affairs, Media Studies, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video
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- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
The BBC’s flagship news and current affairs programme revamped its website at the beginning of 2009. It now provides information on the programme’s on-screen team in their new ‘reporter profiles’; wider issues can be discussed on the team blog and reporters Jane Corbin, John Sweeney and Raphael Rowe blog about the challenging situations they face in their work; executive producer Tom Giles provides an insight into the editorial dilemmas and pitfalls which pepper the process of making the programmes. The ‘About Panorama’ section provides a history of the programme (the world’s longest-running investigative programme) and a short film on the first 50 years and classic clips from the last six decades. Episodes continue to be streamed for a full 12 months after transmission and written details of programmes are given going back to 2000.
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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
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- 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.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
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- 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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- http://endorphin.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Biology, Environmental Studies, Geography, Media Studies, Music, Nature, Photography, Sports Science
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
This video subscription service offers very high quality QuickTime movies. The very high resolution samples on this site are of quite spectacular quality, but will require at 150mbs of free memory to play or the computer will crash. A few clips are available free, but otherwise a subscription is required. The movies are organised by genre (people, places, music, events etc.).
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- http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Main?action=new
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical
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- Art, Film Studies, Media Studies, Medicine
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- Film/Video
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- Databases
This functional and easy-to-use site features a bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art in general that relates to Medical Humanities and includes links to some substantial video extracts as well as an alphabetical index to reviews of films which relate to medicine in some way, including such disparate titles as 21 Grams, The Body Snatcher, The English Patient, Ikiru Lorenzo’s Oil and dozens of others. There are also detailed sections devoted to medicine in literature and fine art which combine to produce a fascinating and varied introduction to the way that health and healers have been represented over the centuries.
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