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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
- Type of resource
- 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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- 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
- Type of resource
- 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
- Medium
- 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.
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
- Medium
- 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
- https://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, History, Media Studies
- Medium
- 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.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Media Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources
Site gathering together the logic-defying pronouncements to the news media of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information, who rose to fame during the 2003 Iraq war.
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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
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- 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
- Type of resource
- 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.
Other Online Moving image
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- https://www.desandmick.co.uk/television/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, TV/Radio listings
TV & Radio Bits was a nostalgia site devoted to BBC TV and radio which was put together with great care and affection. It included an extensive collection of BBC station idents, TV listings from the Radio Times going back to the 1930s as well a large selection of its covers scanned in. There were features on the career of Terry Wogan and a thorough look at Noel’s House party, as well a substantial section devoted to 1980s television programmes.
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- https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/nielsen-solutions/nielsen-measurement.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Organisations
Nielsen, a company who supply Canada and the US with television ratings information have a website which outlines the way in which representative population samples are taken, and how participants’ viewing patterns are monitored.
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