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- https://froggy.lbl.gov/virtual/
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- Bio-Medical
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- Biology, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This site allows one to dissect a digitised frog named Fluffy organ by organ, and is available in eight languages (though not all translations are equally good). A movie option using Real allows the user to make the frog rotate in three dimensions in any chosen direction.
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- https://search.alexanderstreet.com/mpls
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Current Affairs, Environmental Studies, Media Studies, Medicine, Politics and Government, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Footage Sources, Streaming/Download
MediaPlus replaces the former Jisc MediaHub subscription service, which was retired at the end of August 2016. The new service, MediaPlus, is now being delivered to the UK higher and further education community by Alexander Street Press in association with Jisc, and consists of more than 100,000 videos, images, and sound recordings. Currently available resources includes the content which was available on the Jisc MediaHub, including ITN, Getty images and Wellcome Library images and sound.
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- http://www.britishfilm.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources
This nicely cross-referenced introductory level resource provides overviews of a number of themes, events and personalities relating to British film and television. The site includes overviews of author Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective, the films of Humphrey Jennings, 1980s British Cinema, the contribution made by Channel Four as well as an extensive look at the work of David Lynch.
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- http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/bbcmotiongallery#
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Biology, Ethnology, Geography, Media Studies, Nature
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- 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.mrqe.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Reviews
The extremely useful MRQE website claims to provide links to 400,000 online reviews from a huge variety of sources for some 40,000 movies. The layout is simple in the extreme, but the site works well - searches can be carried out using simple Boolean operators and there is a prompt taking you to preselected lists, such as Recent releases in the UK, Most popular titles (last week) or specific titles that appeared in various festivals at Cannes or the Academy Awards. Foreign language titles can also be searched successfully, although it is restricted to the Roman alphabet.
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- https://www.webofstories.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Biology, Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Physics
- Medium
- 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/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, French Studies, History, Media Studies
- Medium
- 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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- Link
- http://webguide.awn.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Art, Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- 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.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- http://www.tv.com/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- 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.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- http://www.visual-media.be/history.html
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies, Photography, Technology
- Type of resource
- Information Sources
This small site is based on the personal collection of Thomas Weynants relating to pre- and early cinema. It includes examples of such pre-cinema visual entertainments and toys as the Phantasmagoria, Magic Lanterns, Phenakistiscopes and a selection of stereoscopic images.
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